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Re: [PATCH] maint: ship .xz, not .lzma


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: Re: [PATCH] maint: ship .xz, not .lzma
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:02:42 -0500 (CDT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14)

On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:

No objections.

I'm curious to know what the history of lzma and xz is that makes this
desirable though.

I am curious to know if XZ Utils has now achieved a proper stable release or if it will be perpetually in a prototype like state. Its code is quite large and quite obtuse.

Also, I remain curious to know why 'lzip' has never been considered as a suitable replacement. Lzip accomplishes the same thing with 10 times less code, and better fits the traditions previously established by gzip and bzip2. Its only limitation is that it requires a C++ compiler. The claim is made that it is not portable because it does not come with a megabyte-sized configure script, but it does not need such a huge configure script because it only uses portable ANSI interfaces, similar to the way gzip only requires ANSI C. This sort of decision-making results in people feeling that GNU software is excessively complex bloatware. Personal politics and status has become more important than proper technical analysis.

Bob
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