On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 09:35 +0800, wdlkmpx wrote: > All C++ variants in one package = people who compile only need to > update 1 package. There are like 50000 linux distros, about 50000 > package maintainers, think about it.
I don't recall making you my representative. As a package maintainer for lzip, I strongly prefer split packages than one huge monolith. For a start, because it means that I only have to update the packages that have changed rather than upgrading everything because one of them changed. > And it's quite obvious why lzip never took off, most basic apps are C > apps, like all the other basic or critical linux compressors are > written in C, LZip is the only C++ compressor I came across (also > p7zip and unrar), this produces big static apps. Only after looking in > the lzip website I found the C version, but most people will not do > that. This argument sounds very poor. I honestly doubt the majority of *nix users care the slightest bit about static executables, or C++ dependency at this point. Do you have any proof that someone considers 'xz better than lzip' because of C++? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
