Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:56:07 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, lasse.collin@tukaani.org,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, mirrors@kernel.org,
       users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" <ftpadmin@kernel.org>,
       Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion
Message-ID: <20100214095607.GB21783@one.firstfloor.org>
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> With xz you have just one C/C++ implementation with a single library with
> an undocumented API for C/C++ programmers.

... which is not even widely deployed. I did a quick survey and none of 
my systems (none of which terrible old and not particularly embedded) 
have it installed and for most them there's only "lzma-utils" in the 
distribution package repositories which I understand is not compatible.

I would basically need to download the source by hand and install
it like back in the bad old "unix with all useful commands missing"
HP-UX/Solaris/etc. days.

Please keep .gz and better .bz2

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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