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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 16:48:31 -0500 |
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On Saturday 03 March 2012 16:12:47 James K. Lowden wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 15:47:22 -0500 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> No. By my logic, if you're going to replace gzip, you should augment
> the library to permit backwards compatibility.
no, that's crap logic. gzip/zlib are designed to handle the *gzip*
compression scheme. FIN. xz is a diff compression scheme, hence diff
util/library. to keep things simple, the command line interface for
gzip/bzip2/xz use the same flags.
attempting to reframe gzip as an arbitrary frontend for any compression scheme
doesn't make sense. it never was that, and most likely never will be. if you
want to be lazy and have one command that handles arbitrary
compression/archiving, then use a project that does exactly that. there are a
bunch out there.
-mike
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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, Mike Frysinger, 2012/03/03
- 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, Warren Young, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Alberto Luaces, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Olaf Lenz, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Warren Young, 2012/03/06
Re: Autoconf distributions and xz dependency, Werner LEMBERG, 2012/03/06