Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751828Ab0BRX75 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:59:57 -0500 Received: from borg.medozas.de ([188.40.89.202]:59251 "EHLO borg.medozas.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750950Ab0BRX74 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:59:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:59:54 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Andi Kleen cc: Phillip Lougher , Jean Delvare , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org, users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion In-Reply-To: <20100214095607.GB21783@one.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100211205129.GA26105@elf.ucw.cz> <20100213181008.479509f5@hyperion.delvare> <4B773B31.1020802@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20100214095607.GB21783@one.firstfloor.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LSU 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1102 Lines: 23 On Sunday 2010-02-14 10:56, Andi Kleen wrote: >> 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. When was the last time you compiled a Linux kernel on HP-UX or Solaris? I think others did that first (me being along the party), and quite frankly, the plain Solaris without CSW has quickly-reachable limits even for non-kernels. -- 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/