Re: Compression tool based on Rabin chunks - integrate into gzip?

[Bobby Martin]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bobby Martin wrote:
>> *New lossless compression tool*
>
> Thanks for your interest.
> However, gzip is in maintenance-only mode.
> There are far better free compression tools (http://tukaani.org/xz/),
> and I am working on gzip solely to fix bugs and maintain a certain
> level of portability and robustness.
>
> I'm sure that if you can improve upon xz's overall compression performance,
> its author would be interested in integrating your improvement(s).

Thanks very much, Jim and Antonio, for references to other projects
where integration would make more sense.  I'll check performance in
conjunction with them, then follow up based on the results.

Bobby