[tlbuild] building / including xz into the build process

[Peter Breitenlohner]

On Thu, 7 May 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:

> as Karl has announced some time ago we will switch to packaging our
> containers with xz instead of lzma for 2009.
>
> xz is the successor of lzma and now with stable file format, other than
> that there are not so many differences.
> 	http://tukaani.org/xz/
>
> I don't know if it makes sense to include the xz utils into the build
> process, ...

Hi everyone,

would be rather easy to integrate into the TL2009 build system, and I don't
expect any serious system specific problems.

Maybe disabled by default like xindy (except for a native-texlive-build).
Karl?

Regards
Peter