On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 04/04/2018 06:09 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> >> maybe 2.0 to keep it >> short and simple. > > I have a more-drastic idea in mind. Let's replace gzip's source code with > pigz's, make the minimal set of changes needed to make it compatible with > gzip and/or GNU in general, and call it gzip 2.0. In the meantime, we can > keep the gzip 1 series around with the traditional implementation.
I like it!