linux-kernel - Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

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Date:	Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:51:17 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
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

On Sun 2010-02-14 18:33:49, Stefan Richter wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, but I just don't think that's true. No more windows systems
here. On android, gzip is supported, xzip is not. Debian machine
supports both, but gzip was preinstalled and I had to pull xzip. (This
does not help either:

root@amd:~# apt-cache search xzip
xzip - Interpreter of Infocom-format story-files

)									Pavel
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