Use more sane compressed tarball for the Linux binary releases

[shmerl]

Current binary release in the tag for instance rust-analyzer-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.gz has a superfluous name and being simply a gzip wrapper doesn't have any attirbutes like being actually an executable so when unpacking I always need to:

• Unpack .gz
• Rename the file to rust-analyzer
• give it an executbale flag

It would be better if rust-analyzer was wrapped into tar (to preserve the executable flag), which then can be compressed with something more modern likt zstd, rather than .gz.

Example how to compress:

Source: rust-analyzer

tar --create --verbose --use-compress-program "zstd --threads=$(nproc) -19 --verbose" --file rust-analyzer.tar.zst rust-analyzer

Or more simply:

tar -caf rust-analyzer.tar.zst rust-analyzer

Result: rust-analyzer.tar.zst

Example how to decompress:

tar --extract --verbose --use-compress-program "zstd --threads=$(nproc) --decompress --verbose" --file rust-analyzer.tar.zst

Or more simply:

tar -xvf rust-analyzer.tar.zst

[A4-Tacks]

Compared to zst, xz is more common and has a better compression ratio

cmd	size
xz -9	9.8M
zstd -19	12M
gzip	17M

[shmerl]

I don't really worry about size. As a general solution, zstd is better than xz (especially for compression and decompression times), so I just always prefer it over xz. It has the best balance. For small files all that is basically irrelevant, it becomes more important for bigger archives. But that's somewhat off-topic.

[A4-Tacks]

especially for compression time

This is not important, users need decompression time, and decompression time is negligible

And compared to zstd, xz is installed more frequently, and users may not have zstd decompressors

[shmerl]

zstd is pretty common in any modern distro, so I don't see it as a concern. You can't worry about each obscure or ancient use case.

But anyway, for this one my main point is mostly about tar-ing it to have a normal name and file attributes. Compressor is not that important.

[shmerl]

This is not important, users need decompression time, and decompression time is negligible

Just for the reference, in general case zstd decompression times are better than xz.