Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750961AbWEVTHL (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 15:07:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750968AbWEVTHL (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 15:07:11 -0400 Received: from mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com ([212.158.248.7]:55313 "EHLO mcr-smtp-001.bulldogdsl.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750961AbWEVTHJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 15:07:09 -0400 X-Spam-Abuse: Please report all spam/abuse matters to abuse@bulldogdsl.com From: Alistair John Strachan To: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Source Compression Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:07:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200605212003.32063.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605222007.19456.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 595 Lines: 18 On Monday 22 May 2006 19:58, H. Peter Anvin wrote: [snip] > Personally, I would like to suggest adding LZMA capability to gzip. > The gzip format already has support for multiple compression formats. Any idea why this wasn't done for bzip2? -- Cheers, Alistair. Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/