From e94f172c3813dc961c8f677c6ba11b5fc1ad4d62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Karen Etheridge Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2017 15:37:07 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] add perldelta for packaging changes --- pod/perldelta.pod | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index e61f8a2..e80f2ec 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, below.) + =head1 Platform Support XXX Any changes to platform support should be listed in the sections below. -- 1.8.3.1