From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: The XZ patch? Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:57:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4A795790.9010805@op5.se> References: <5F7EF736-9D0B-4455-A0F7-E7314B4F29E4@uwaterloo.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Mark A Rada X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 05 11:57:50 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MYdFk-0005p9-Dy for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:57:48 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934075AbZHEJ5k (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:57:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933928AbZHEJ5k (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:57:40 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog104.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.73]:40898 "HELO na3sys009aog104.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933810AbZHEJ5j (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Aug 2009 05:57:39 -0400 Received: from source ([209.85.219.221]) by na3sys009aob104.postini.com ([74.125.148.12]) with SMTP ID DSNKSnlXks6Fh8yoWvuNEMuW9zkJiMJgY3G6@postini.com; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:57:40 PDT Received: by ewy21 with SMTP id 21so4417497ewy.45 for ; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:57:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.210.138.6 with SMTP id l6mr7786647ebd.84.1249466258165; Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:57:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clix.int.op5.se (90-227-179-205-no128.tbcn.telia.com [90.227.179.205]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm897684eyb.30.2009.08.05.02.57.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:57:37 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) In-Reply-To: <5F7EF736-9D0B-4455-A0F7-E7314B4F29E4@uwaterloo.ca> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Mark A Rada wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering what the fate of my XZ patch was (I didn't do something > dumb, did I?). Never got a response after my last submit. > No comments usually meant noone cared enough about the implemented feature to comment on it. Personally, I'd never use a compression algorithm that hogs as much memory as XZ does. "Good enough" really is just that, imo, and bzip2 and gzip are widely available pretty much everywhere, whereas I've never heard of XZ before. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.