Re: distribute xz-compressed tarballs, too?

[John Cowan]

Jim Meyering scripsit:

> If it's what you want, just say "I don't want to use xz".
> I can't rebut that ;-)

Gzip compressors and decompressors are already available on, oh,
about 100% of the computers on the planet.  Gzip is defined by an
RFC and has dozens of compatible implementations.  It's neither
the fastest nor the smallest compression algorithm, but it is
definitely the standard-est.

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