Improve OS detection

[hvr]

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[hasufell]

I also noticed we use a lot of .tar.xz

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

[hvr]

I also noticed we use a lot of .tar.xz

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

Well, it took a very long time to have all major Linux distros have .xz support out of the box... and I'm not willing to go back to .bz2 or .gz for bindists after we've finally standardised on .xz for cabal & ghc distributions... and this for the sake of future digital archaeologists... ;-)

What I miss from that article is a concrete suggestion what to use as alternative (without sacrificing compression ratio); or is it simply to go back to using the original version-1 .lzma stream format?

[hasufell]

or is it simply to go back to using the original version-1 .lzma stream format?

Pretty much. But even .gz or .bz2 is better.

Well, it took a very long time to have all major Linux distros have .xz support out of the box... and I'm not willing to go back to .bz2 or .gz for bindists after we've finally standardised on .xz for cabal & ghc distributions... and this for the sake of future digital archaeologists... ;-)

But it's unreliable...