Jim, So gzip has run into a version 2.0 wall. Just out of curiosity, will the next version be 1.91? 2.0? 1.A?
Mark > On Apr 4, 2018, at 5:18 PM, Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> wrote: > > tags 31065 notabug > stop > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Mark Adler <mad...@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote: >> Jean-loup has not worked on gzip for many years, but I will leave it to the >> gzip maintainers here to answer to their future intentions. >> >> However pigz has that ability now with the --independent option, where the >> block size defaults to 128K, and can be changed with the --blocksize option. >> See http://zlib.net/pigz/ > > Hi Mark, thanks for replying. > > As for gzip vs. 2.0, I can say with confidence that we would strongly > discourage such an effort here. If you want that capability, use pigz. > While gzip is worth maintaining, it is definitely not the compression > tool of the future. > > I've marked this as "notabug" and closed the issue in gzip's tracker, > but you're welcome to continue replying here. > > >
