Dear Jim and Paul,
Jim Meyering wrote:
Let's see how things stand in a month or two.
As you already know, the zutils package[1] has been offered to GNU and
is waiting approval. A year has passed, but it seems coordination with
the gzip maintainers to avoid name clashes between the two packag
On 12/14/10 08:19, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> I propose to rename the corresponding gzip-only scripts in the gzip
> distribution to gzcat, gzcmp, gzdiff, and gzgrep, so that the
> multi-compressor programs in zutils can replace them.
I have no objection to doing that, as a build-time option
(for
Paul Eggert wrote:
I propose to rename the corresponding gzip-only scripts in the gzip
distribution to gzcat, gzcmp, gzdiff, and gzgrep, so that the
multi-compressor programs in zutils can replace them.
I have no objection to doing that, as a build-time option (for
backward compatibility).
I
On 12/14/10 10:48, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> I am not sure this is enough to guarantee the peaceful coexistence of both
> packages, unless the build-time option is to rename by default.
That sounds too drastic. I am not a fan of gzip's scripts,
but I've learned from years of maintenance that a
On 12/14/2010 11:27 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 12/14/10 10:48, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
>> I am not sure this is enough to guarantee the peaceful coexistence of both
>> packages, unless the build-time option is to rename by default.
>
> That sounds too drastic. I am not a fan of gzip's scripts,
