Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

[Petri Kaukasoina <kaukasoina907m57kr9@sci.fi>]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:40:47AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:31:59PM -0500, James Cloos wrote:
> > >>>>> "W" == Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes:
> > 
> > W> Well, I personally like to be able to simply run "less patch-2.6.27.45.gz"
> > W> and have it transparently uncompressed and dumped on my terminal. It
> > W> doesn't do that on bz2. We could find multiple examples.
> > 
> > It does here, and lzma & xz, too.  And has since just days after Lasse
> > annouced that the new name would be xz.
> > 
> > Your LESSOPEN controls that, and can be easily coded to support any archive.
> 
> Just checked and I found it funny to see that patch-2.6.1.bz2 is not
> correctly opened while 2.6.27.45.bz2 is. Maybe some things have slightly
> changed in the tools by that time and the output differs slightly. However
> bzcat opens them both so the file is not corrupted.
> 
> This raises the point of the maturity of the tools BTW. GZ is mature,
> BZ2 has become mature over the years, XZ is very recent and may still
> be buggy at times. We'll only know that when people will complain that
> they cannot open one file from time to time.
> 
> Willy
> 
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