Hi, R0b0t1 wrote:
> If the steering committee would approve of the use of lzip I think it > would be beneficial. So far it looks like there is only one major > distribution which does not support it in its repository, and that > would be an easy fix for that distribution. I suspect there are more people interested in using lzip than it seems so. For instance, here I've found a German doctor who would like to see lzip more used. http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/pipping/reproduction/#footnote:2 "Lzip was used here because it led to considerably higher rates of compression than the more widely available gzip, is less susceptible to corruption and does not contain the modification time of the input so that identical input will lead to identical output. It is hoped that Lzip will see more widespread use in the future so that this choice will lead to less and less discomfort for the user." Maria Bisen
