Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Perhaps you're imagining that filters will be added willy-nilly, >> without a thought to long-term usability and the possibility of bloat. > > Well, who guarantees filters will not be added willy-nilly?
You jest? The person who guarantees that is the same sort of person who ensures lzip does not turn into a trojan, or erase all of my disks. > Or that a > newly added filter won't interact badly with an existing one? Since > the xz format allows many changes, I assume some changes will be > made. Else its modifiability would be a waste. >> Can you name archiver formats that specify subblock-like filters? > > Yes, RAR. See the file headers.hpp in unrar source. Interesting, but not relevant. xz is still not an archive format. >> lzip 1.5 supports the version 1 file format, but it does not support the >> sync flush marker, which lzip 1.7 and later support. Look for "Sync Flush >> marker" in decoder.cc. Equivalent code is not present in 1.5. > > This is not exactly a format change. There is no middle ground. Either it is, or it is not. _______________________________________________ Lzip-bug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lzip-bug
