bug#31065: Version 2??

2018-04-04 Thread - -
Hi, some time ago Jean-loup, said on [1]http://www.gzip.org/recover.txt that "As you can see, all this is not a trivial task, so you should attempt it only if your data is very valuable. gzip 2.0 will have a new blocksize option, allowing to recover easily all undamaged blocks after

bug#31065: Version 2??

2018-04-04 Thread Mark Adler
Jean-loup has not worked on gzip for many years, but I will leave it to the gzip maintainers here to answer to their future intentions. However pigz has that ability now with the --independent option, where the block size defaults to 128K, and can be changed with the --blocksize option. See htt

bug#31065: Version 2??

2018-04-04 Thread Jim Meyering
tags 31065 notabug stop On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Mark Adler wrote: > Jean-loup has not worked on gzip for many years, but I will leave it to the > gzip maintainers here to answer to their future intentions. > > However pigz has that ability now with the --independent option, where the >

bug#31065: Version 2??

2018-04-04 Thread Mark Adler
Jim, So gzip has run into a version 2.0 wall. Just out of curiosity, will the next version be 1.91? 2.0? 1.A? Mark > On Apr 4, 2018, at 5:18 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > > tags 31065 notabug > stop > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 4:01 PM, Mark Adler wrote: >> Jean-loup has not worked on gzip for m

bug#31065: Version 2??

2018-04-04 Thread Jim Meyering
On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 5:54 PM, Mark Adler wrote: > So gzip has run into a version 2.0 wall. Just out of curiosity, will the next > version be 1.91? 2.0? 1.A? I might have blindly chosen 1.10, since most are used to version-sorting for such numbers. But these version-number-lengthening events do