From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:12:36 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2] Add support for XZ decompression algorithm. In-Reply-To: References: <1291562184-27126-1-git-send-email-luigi.mantellini@idf-hit.com> <1291658317.20072.664.camel@petert> <201012061306.40676.vapier@gentoo.org> Message-ID: <20101206231236.7249F659@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Luigi Mantellini, In message you wrote: > > The LZMA and XZ overlap on the internal LZMA code (each one has the > own implementation). We can decide 1) to ignore this patch (and future > rework) to not support XZ 2) have both XZ and LZMA considering them as > different algorithms 3) Deprecate LZMA and (in the future) support > just XZ. > > My idea is to have 2) and in the future switch to 3). History has shown that the "let me get this in now and I will clean up later" seldom works. Usually there is just toolittle time for the cleanup, and what for? It's working, isn't it? So please me this 3). Thanks. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de You! What PLANET is this! -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0