Re: revisiting the xz-only distribution idea

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2016-09/msg00029.html
> > Meanwhile, the recently-released open-source Zstd compression seems
> > like it can outperform several other compression formats;
> > http://facebook.github.io/zstd/.  Should we be revisiting
> > coreutils' xz-only distribution policy?
>
> I guess an issue with the popularity of xz for software
> distribution, is that people may consequently use it for other
> applications without much consideration.

IMHO, using zstd to distribute coreutils would only worsen things in 
this respect because the zstd format seems even worse than xz:

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lzip-bug/2016-10/msg00003.html
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lzip-bug/2016-10/msg00005.html


Best regards,
Antonio.