Subject: Re: [bug#45460] [PATCH 0/5] Zstd support for 'guix publish' and 'guix substitute'

From: Mathieu Othacehe <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2020 10:30:37 +0100

Hello Ludo,

> Currently ‘guix substitute’ implements the same policy has before,
> which is to pick the smallest archive when several compression
> methods are proposed.  The next step will be to make that
> configurable.
>
> Thoughts?

Nice one! What do you have in mind to make it configurable? Pass the
preferred compression types to the daemon and propagate it to "guix
substitute"?

Once we have better visibility on zstd, I think we should consider
making those bindings mandatory for consistency with the other
Guile compression libraries.

Otherwise, the whole patchset seems fine :).

Thanks,

Mathieu