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| author | Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org> | 2017-11-19 15:37:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Karen Etheridge <ether@cpan.org> | 2017-11-19 15:38:25 -0800 |
| commit | e94f172c3813dc961c8f677c6ba11b5fc1ad4d62 (patch) | |
| tree | d514a5f75719a8b41d9d1feedbbb24e2c7b5b6ed | |
| parent | c6bee77e5b388e624827e6c745733c2a7407ae15 (diff) | |
| download | perl-e94f172c3813dc961c8f677c6ba11b5fc1ad4d62.tar.gz | |
add perldelta for packaging changes
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index e61f8a222d..e80f2ecfe8 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -484,6 +484,14 @@ XXX =back +=head1 Packaging + +For the past few years we have released perl using three different archive +formats: bzip (C<.bz2>), LZMA2 (C<.xz>) and gzip (C<.gz>). Since xz compresses +better and decompresses faster, and gzip is more compatible and uses less memory, +we have dropped the C<.bz2> archive format with this release. +(If this poses a problem, do let us know; see L</Reporting Bugs>, below.) + =head1 Platform Support XXX Any changes to platform support should be listed in the sections below. |