Zutils vs single compressor utilities

2009-11-03 Thread Antonio Diaz Diaz
Hello, As nobody responded to http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2009-08/msg0.html, I am sending this message again. Vincent Lefevre (maintainer of the MPFR package) suggested that utilities like zdiff, bzdiff, lzdiff, etc, should be provided independently of compressors. So I h

Re: Zutils vs single compressor utilities

2009-11-03 Thread Jim Meyering
Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > As nobody responded to > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gzip/2009-08/msg0.html, I am > sending this message again. ... > I am writing you because the most obvious names for such utilities are > the names of the utilities already distributed with gzip. I hope we