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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:33:49 +0100 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> CC: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>, lasse.collin@...aani.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mirrors@...nel.org, users@...nel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" <ftpadmin@...nel.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu> Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sat 2010-02-13 10:59:44, Stefan Richter wrote: >> As a side note: 7zip, a very popular and Free archiving tool for >> Windows, supports xz since its version 9 which is currently available as >> a beta. So, WRT the need to get an extra unarchiver, xz is just as >> accessible to Windows users as gz is. > > Wow, what a stretch. > > There's about milion tools supporting gz for Windows, and many of them > are out of beta... And roughly half of this million archiving/ compression tools use 7zip's backend library, which is just one way of getting xz support in a Windows application. Besides, what one project calls beta is called dot-zero release elsewhere. :-) Seriously, getting xz support on Windows is just as easy or as difficult as getting gz support. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- --=- -===- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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