[tlbuild] xz, wget, lz4 updates

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2019-03-01 at 07:34:25 +0100, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

 > What do we use lz4 for and should any special flags be used? Is
 > there a plan to switch from xz to lz4 in the future?

Hi Mojca,
lz4 is used by tlmgr for the package backups.  It's very fast but
compression is poor.  Hence we still need xz for network downloads.

Regards,
  Reinhard

--
------------------------------------------------------------------
Reinhard Kotucha                            Phone: +49-511-3373112
Marschnerstr. 25
D-30167 Hannover                    mailto:reinhard.kotucha at web.de
------------------------------------------------------------------