On Sep 24, 2020, at 08:39, Lothar Haeger wrote: > > Reading "xz" and "archive" in the same sentence reminds me of > https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html > > While it's easy to read the above as a rant of a disappointed competitor, he > seems to make some valid points about why lzma/xz should be avoided, > especially for long term archival purposes.
Thanks for pointing out that article. I wasn't aware of it or the deficiencies in the xz format that it alleges exist. It sounds like lzip might be a better format, but macOS tar / libarchive doesn't know how to decompress lzip files, and lzip is GPL-2+ licensed so I would be wary about bundling it with MacPorts which is BSD licensed.
