Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752330Ab0BNRfj (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:35:39 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:41299 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751957Ab0BNRfi (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:35:38 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4B7833FD.2010107@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:33:49 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20100102 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Jean Delvare , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org, users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , Linus Torvalds , Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100212150137.648dca7c@hyperion.delvare> <4B75A5DC.3060803@kernel.org> <20100212202357.6363d5af@hyperion.delvare> <20100212230702.GA10266@1wt.eu> <20100213091748.276821e1@hyperion.delvare> <4B767810.5020707@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20100214171327.GF1578@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20100214171327.GF1578@ucw.cz> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1101 Lines: 26 Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sat 2010-02-13 10:59:44, Stefan Richter wrote: >> As a side note: 7zip, a very popular and Free archiving tool for >> Windows, supports xz since its version 9 which is currently available as >> a beta. So, WRT the need to get an extra unarchiver, xz is just as >> accessible to Windows users as gz is. > > Wow, what a stretch. > > There's about milion tools supporting gz for Windows, and many of them > are out of beta... And roughly half of this million archiving/ compression tools use 7zip's backend library, which is just one way of getting xz support in a Windows application. Besides, what one project calls beta is called dot-zero release elsewhere. :-) Seriously, getting xz support on Windows is just as easy or as difficult as getting gz support. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- --=- -===- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/