>>>>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 23:22:52 +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis >>>>> <pagalt...@gmx.de> said:
> It’s gonna be a lot of work to iron out the entire tool chain to > support the newer formats; then it will take a lot of time until > the work trickles out far enough that people could start relying > on it. In the case of bzip2 I couldn't resist after having watched bzip2's acceptance for several years. So I prodded all toolchain authors to support bz2. It is now done and seems to work fine. > For quite piddly gains, in absolute numbers. > I really don’t see the point. Gzip is Good Enough. Agreed, but since bzip2 support is already done we can welcome it when people actually use it. -- andreas
