Re: new snapshot (rm fixes and new program: mktemp)

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Jim Meyering wrote on 08-10-07 11:05:
> In addition to adding mktemp, I've fixed a few low-probability bugs in rm.
> This also includes a lot of new code from gnulib, by virtue of coreutils
> now requiring the vasprintf-posix module (mostly for non-POSIX systems),
> so please give this a work-out if you haven't built a snapshot recently:
>
>     http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-ss.tar.gz
>     http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-ss.tar.gz.sig
>
> aka
>
>     http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-316-e6f4b.tar.gz
>     http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils-6.9-316-e6f4b.tar.gz.sig
>
> In addition, note that the next snapshot will probably be compressed
> with lzma, rather than with gzip.  The resulting file is less than half
> the size of the .gz one and it is even 2MB smaller than the .bz2 one:

Never heard of it!
Is this it: http://tukaani.org/lzma/ ?
Is it considered mature/stable??

bjd