Re: support for lzip

2010-02-15 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Hello, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: Do you plan to support the creation of lzip-compressed tarballs? http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2008-11/msg00076.html Well, to be honest, I regard the addition of lzma support as a mistake in hindsight. We should have waited and added xz support only,

Re: support for lzip

2010-02-15 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: Given the simplicity of the changes needed (see attached patch), I see no reason for not supporting lzip, which some developers[1] already dub "the currently best free compression program". +1 Lzip sources are 10X smaller than Lzma/Xz Utils, and