2009/8/20 Andrey V. Panov <pa...@canopus.iacp.dvo.ru>: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:55:19PM +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Nicolas Spalinger wrote: >> >> > No you just have to be a git expert, which is much easier isn't it: >> > git clone git://ctrl.tukaani.org/xz.git >> > >> > You can grab and build the tarballs from the packages.foo.org pages >> > (right-hand menu) or on the upstream website... >> > Or motivate maintainers for your preferred environment... >> >> Incidentally, XZ sounds very much like Russian ХЗ acronym which can be >> roughly translated as "hell knows" meaning "How do I know?" :) I'm >> wondering if Andrey realized that :) >> >> Alexandre > No. Xz format is becoming the leading format for compression for Linux > binary packages. Slackware already switched to it, Red Hat is going to > do this in its rpm format. You may also install 7zip 9.x to unpack this.
Leading? And it's the first time Alexandre and I (and I would guess lots of others) have heard of it. How do you expect users on older OS's to unpack it? Or do you just not want them to see the font? Why not have a .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 as well as this new format? If it is going to be packaged for Debian/Ubuntu it will need to be repacked anyway. I see that most of the other files in that directory are .bz2 so I can't see that being a problem. Aside from that, good work on the fonts :) Regards, Daniel
