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

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:48:21 +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 Sun 2010-02-14 18:33:49, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> 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.

Although it is. :-)

> 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

Considering that xz support is available even on niche systems like
Amiga OS and BeOS (via p7zip if not by other means) and xz-utils proper
build even on DOS, OpenVMS and other systems, how hard can it be to
obtain an xz decompressor on Android, Debian, or Ubuntu¹?  (¹About which
there was a note somewhere else in this thread that there is a conflict
between xz-utils and lzma-utils... That's basically because the former
supersede the latter.)

The name confusion between xz-utils and xzip can be avoided if you
search for the package in a package manager which shows package
categories (archivers vs. games).
-- 
Stefan Richter
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