* Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il> [2010-11-26 22:05]: > In any case, regardless of its age, xz does tend to compress > better than bz2 and should also be faster.
I know. I heard of it quite early and switched from bzip2 to xz for my database dumps and mail archives. That’s not the point of the quote though. New things are always better in some way. Why else would anyone make them? But things always exist in a broader context and it is rarely so straight- forward to find any of them superior on that level. > That put aside sticking with an older solution may be > preferable due to the better adoption ratios mentioned by David > and others, but to quote George Bernard Show: "The reasonable > man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists > in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress > depends on the unreasonable man.". > ( http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw ). I agree with the notion. But let me ask how much pressure changing the compression format on CPAN would exert on the world to adapt itself to it. Note too the quote is written from the perspective of the world: no mention goes to the fortunes of the unreasonable man himself… Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
