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Re: xz instead of bzip2

From: Matias Fonzo <selk at dragora dot org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, antonio at gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 15:30:51 -0300
Subject: Re: xz instead of bzip2
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On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:24:50 +0200
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

> On Jun 05 2017, Matias Fonzo <selk@dragora.org> wrote:
> 
> > Dear GCC developers,
> >
> > What happens here !
> >
> > "Weekly snapshots now use xz compression [2017-05-24]
> >     ...instead of bzip2."
> >
> > Are you aware that a better implementation / format exists for this
> > purposes?:
> >
> >     http://lzip.nongnu.org/
> >
> > Review of xz:
> >
> >     http://lzip.nongnu.org/xz_inadequate.html
> >
> >
> > Please do the right thing..  
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/msg00009.html
> 
> Andreas.
> 

I respect Jim Meyering for his career in the GNU project.  I do not
like that he adopted xz as his toy, but this is a personal opinion
(nothing against the person really).  If someone can refute the
arguments found in the article, I will change my mind about lzip and I
will start supporting xz.

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References:
- xz instead of bzip2
  - From: Matias Fonzo
- Re: xz instead of bzip2
  - From: Andreas Schwab

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