On 24 September 2014 01:18, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe <first.lord.of.t...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there something wrong with sflate?
I had missed sflate, thanks! Although, having now looked, I'm envisioning something smaller than sflate. On 24 September 2014 01:29, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czark...@gmail.com> wrote: > IMO generating compressed tarballs with rare compression scheme sucks. > Aren't tarballs supposed to be lingua franca of data storage? I don't think the compression format is defined by POSIX; as far as I can see XZ is really recent but has gained traction in some distributions. In terms of actual usefulness, this compression scheme would be a nice addition for suckless based tools to use e.g. package manager etc. Use outside of suckless is harder to gauge; there are a lot of compression methods out there. On 24 September 2014 01:29, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czark...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ralph Eastwood said: >> Some time ago, there was some discussion about sbase's tar with >> compression. I was wondering if this compression tool would >> necessarily have to be a standard gzip/bzip2/xz implementation. > > IMO generating compressed tarballs with rare compression scheme sucks. > Aren't tarballs supposed to be lingua franca of data storage? > > -- > Dmitrij D. Czarkoff > -- Tai Chi Minh Ralph Eastwood tcmreastw...@gmail.com
