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Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency
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Mike Frysinger |
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Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency |
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Sat, 3 Mar 2012 15:47:22 -0500 |
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On Saturday 03 March 2012 14:52:37 James K. Lowden wrote:
> Why does such an arcane, uninteresting technology warrant advertizing
> via a new utility and suffix? Why isn't xz a feature of zlib, so that
> unzipping applications could automatically use it? If the xz folks
> are determined to supplant gzip, why not fork gzip and add xz to it,
> or link zlib to the xz utility, so that one command suffices for both?
>
> As a project downstream from xz, if we must have yet another
> compression format independent of gzip, why not let it live along side
> the established one(s) until pretty much anything that links to zlib or
> similar also supports xz?
this makes no sense at all. by your logic, zlib/gzip should support every
single compression that someone might use.
-mike
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- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, (continued)
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Russ Allbery, 2012/03/02
- Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Bob Friesenhahn, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Jim Meyering, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/06
- Re: Why I am happy to dump gzip for xz, Russ Allbery, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, James K. Lowden, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/02
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, James K. Lowden, 2012/03/03
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency,
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- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, James K. Lowden, 2012/03/03
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/03
- Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, James K. Lowden, 2012/03/03
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Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Olaf Lenz, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Warren Young, 2012/03/06
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