Re: xz instead of bzip2

[Antonio Diaz Diaz <antonio at gnu dot org>]

Hello Andreas et all,

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/msg00009.html

In the above link I read the following affirmation by Jim Meyering: "I 
found/find that xz is superior to lzip". But he does not back his 
affirmation with any evidence.

Appeal to autority is obsolete since at least the Renaissance. Unless 
someone can refute the defects of xz, my opinion is that using xz is 
damaging to users.

But if you are going to appeal to autority, at least appeal to the 
author of the thing, who said that "XZ Utils is already an 
over-engineered pig".

http://www.mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaani.org/msg00076.html

I just refuse to believe that some of the best developers in the world 
may think seriously about using a format that "protects" its padding 
bytes with a CRC32.

http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html#misguided


Best regards,
Antonio.