On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:24:50 +0200 Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Jun 05 2017, Matias Fonzo <s...@dragora.org> wrote: > > > Dear GCC developers, > > > > What happens here ! > > > > "Weekly snapshots now use xz compression [2017-05-24] > > ...instead of bzip2." > > > > Are you aware that a better implementation / format exists for this > > purposes?: > > > > http://lzip.nongnu.org/ > > > > Review of xz: > > > > http://lzip.nongnu.org/xz_inadequate.html > > > > > > Please do the right thing.. > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/msg00009.html > > Andreas. > I respect Jim Meyering for his career in the GNU project. I do not like that he adopted xz as his toy, but this is a personal opinion (nothing against the person really). If someone can refute the arguments found in the article, I will change my mind about lzip and I will start supporting xz.
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