Antonio Diaz Diaz <[email protected]> writes: > In https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2025-09/msg00262.html > Collin Funk wrote: >> I don't think we need to keep gzip, unless someone voices a need for it >> for bootstrapping. > > I think it would help simplify compiler bootstrap processes[1] that > coreutils joined other tools like binutils, gawk, guile, and make in > releasing lzip tarballs because clzip (the C version of lzip) can be > compiled with bootstrap compilers like tcc (TinyCC), and can therefore > be used early in the compiler bootstrap process.
I think the bootstrappable folks have a tiny xz implementation, so it is solved for them already. > > [1] > https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-building-from-source-all-the-way-down/ > >> Or there is a desire to create archives using only GNU programs. > > I'm all for making lzip and tarlz GNU programs. :-) > > Best regards, > Antonio.
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