Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:51:17 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>, lasse.collin@tukaani.org,
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       users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" <ftpadmin@kernel.org>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion
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On Sun 2010-02-14 18:33:49, Stefan Richter wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, but I just don't think that's true. No more windows systems
here. On android, gzip is supported, xzip is not. Debian machine
supports both, but gzip was preinstalled and I had to pull xzip. (This
does not help either:

root@amd:~# apt-cache search xzip
xzip - Interpreter of Infocom-format story-files

)									Pavel
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