On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 1:18 PM, Matias Fonzo <s...@dragora.org> wrote: > On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 16:16:53 -0300 > Matias Fonzo <s...@dragora.org> wrote: > >> On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 10:31:50 -0500 >> Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> > On 04/05/2017 09:42 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: >> > >> > > Is there any chance to fix the problem once and for all by >> > > switching to lzip (as Eric Blake proposed[1]), instead of asking >> > > others to just palliate some of the symptoms? >> > > >> > > [1] >> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/msg00008.html >> > >> > Note that I was not proposing "switching to lzip", but "adding lzip >> > in parallel to existing xz". I still think that parallel >> > distribution formats is probably worthwhile, but I'm not strongly >> > convinced enough to push my patch through against the wishes of >> > other core developers on the project. >> > >> >> Can developers release (liberate) the ego?. There's nothing wrong in >> want to provide a "second" format, this increases the chances for >> accessing the project, inspect, study, etc. >> > > Maybe this can help in the decision -- from the author of xz[1]: > "XZ Utils is already an over-engineered pig".
I find this continual stream of attempts to discredit xz to be inappropriate and irritating. We have responded numerous times. Please let this rest.
