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Re: lzip support
From: |
Jan Engelhardt |
Subject: |
Re: lzip support |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Nov 2008 17:06:20 +0100 (CET) |
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Alpine 1.10 (LNX 962 2008-03-14) |
On Saturday 2008-11-29 17:04, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> I have been following lzma-utils development closely for some time,
>> and my impression is that xz obviates lzip. I would not want to
>> encourage use of lzip without a convincing argument to the contrary.
>>
>> As soon as there's a beta xz release (i.e., stable format),
>> I'll be switching from .lzma to .xz suffixes for all tarballs I create.
>
> Competition is good and even between open source projects. However, since
> many
> free projects depend on Automake, it makes sense for Automake to channel the
> energy into a smaller set of preferred formats. Note that formats may be
> independent from the tools which produce and consume them so that tools may
> still compete. If new formats are added, the least worthy of the existing
> supported distribution formats should be deprecated and eventually removed.
> This means that if .xz is added that .lzma should be immediately deprecated
> and
> slated for retirement from Automake. Do you agree with this philosophy?
As for me, yes.
- Re: lzip support, (continued)
- Re: lzip support, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/11/28
- Re: lzip support, Jan Engelhardt, 2008/11/28
- Re: lzip support, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/11/28
- Re: lzip support, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/11/29
- Re: lzip support, Jan Engelhardt, 2008/11/29
- Re: lzip support, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/11/29
- Re: lzip support, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/29
- Re: lzip support, Jan Engelhardt, 2008/11/29
- Re: lzip support, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/29
- Re: lzip support, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/11/29
- Re: lzip support,
Jan Engelhardt <=
- Re: lzip support, Jim Meyering, 2008/11/29
- Re: lzip support, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/11/29