Re: Automake 1.11.2 released

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Mon, 26 Dec 2011, Miles Bader wrote:
> What's the difference between xz and lzip anyway...?
>
> I've never even heard of lzip, but the debian package description makes
> it sound very similar to xz...

> From a layman's standpoint, I noticed right away that lzip is small 
and in the spirit of gzip and bzip2 whereas xz is huge (10X more 
source code last time I checked) and has many more lines of configure 
script than lzip has of source code in its entirety.

However, lzip is written in portable C++ (rather than C) and does not 
configure via autotools (because it uses only portable C++) so it is 
at a political disadvantage.

These are reasons why I have been a proponent of lzip since this topic 
came up a number of years ago.

Bob
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