Re: lzip vs. xz

2019-09-25 Thread Christoph Feck
On 09/25/19 20:12, Tobias Leupold wrote: Hi devs! We provide all source tarballs xz-compressed. Now, apparently, xz is quite a badly designed format (cf. http://lzip.nongnu.org/xz_inadequate.html ), and lzip provides the same compression, but an apparently distinctly more reasonable format. I m

lzip vs. xz

2019-09-25 Thread Tobias Leupold
Hi devs! We provide all source tarballs xz-compressed. Now, apparently, xz is quite a badly designed format (cf. http://lzip.nongnu.org/xz_inadequate.html ), and lzip provides the same compression, but an apparently distinctly more reasonable format. I must admit that I personally neither heard a