Since LZIP support has appeared apparently out of the blue (no prior
discussion on this list), and Automake already had LZMA support, can
someone please explain LZIP vs LZMA and why we now have at least two
LZMA compressed targets? Is offering support for two LZMA compressors
encouraging the continued babbelization and subsequent disintegration
of GNU projects?
I see that LZIP is GPL licensed and is pretty small, and with just one
author. It also seems that LZIP is not capable of decoding LZMA utils
output.
If automake now supports 'lzip', why does it not also offer to support
7-Zip', 'srpm', 'zoo', 'arc', and the many other possible archiving
formats so that confusion of the user base can become complete?
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
