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bug#31065: Version 2??
From: |
Mark Adler |
Subject: |
bug#31065: Version 2?? |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Apr 2018 17:54:30 -0700 |
Jim,
So gzip has run into a version 2.0 wall. Just out of curiosity, will the next
version be 1.91? 2.0? 1.A?
Mark
> On Apr 4, 2018, at 5:18 PM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> tags 31065 notabug
> stop
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Mark Adler <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Jean-loup has not worked on gzip for many years, but I will leave it to the
>> gzip maintainers here to answer to their future intentions.
>>
>> However pigz has that ability now with the --independent option, where the
>> block size defaults to 128K, and can be changed with the --blocksize option.
>> See http://zlib.net/pigz/
>
> Hi Mark, thanks for replying.
>
> As for gzip vs. 2.0, I can say with confidence that we would strongly
> discourage such an effort here. If you want that capability, use pigz.
> While gzip is worth maintaining, it is definitely not the compression
> tool of the future.
>
> I've marked this as "notabug" and closed the issue in gzip's tracker,
> but you're welcome to continue replying here.
>
>
>
- bug#31065: Version 2??, - -, 2018/04/04
- bug#31065: Version 2??, Mark Adler, 2018/04/04
- bug#31065: Version 2??, Jim Meyering, 2018/04/04
- bug#31065: Version 2??,
Mark Adler <=
- bug#31065: Version 2??, Jim Meyering, 2018/04/04
- bug#31065: Version 2??, Paul Eggert, 2018/04/05
- bug#31065: Version 2??, Jim Meyering, 2018/04/05
- bug#31065: Version 2??, Mark Adler, 2018/04/05
- bug#31065: Version 2??, Paul Eggert, 2018/04/05