Daniel Glassey wrote: > 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 :)
Yes, indeed! We somehow got sidetracked by the format issue, so I'll join Daniel in saying thanks again to you Andrey for all the design work and for releasing it widely :-) > Regards, > Daniel Cheers, -- Nicolas Spalinger, NRSI volunteer Debian/Ubuntu font teams / OpenFontLibrary http://planet.open-fonts.org
