Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:22:47 +0200 | From | Petri Kaukasoina <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:40:47AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:31:59PM -0500, James Cloos wrote: > > >>>>> "W" == Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> writes: > > > > W> Well, I personally like to be able to simply run "less patch-2.6.27.45.gz" > > W> and have it transparently uncompressed and dumped on my terminal. It > > W> doesn't do that on bz2. We could find multiple examples. > > > > It does here, and lzma & xz, too. And has since just days after Lasse > > annouced that the new name would be xz. > > > > Your LESSOPEN controls that, and can be easily coded to support any archive. > > Just checked and I found it funny to see that patch-2.6.1.bz2 is not > correctly opened while 2.6.27.45.bz2 is. Maybe some things have slightly > changed in the tools by that time and the output differs slightly. However > bzcat opens them both so the file is not corrupted. > > This raises the point of the maturity of the tools BTW. GZ is mature, > BZ2 has become mature over the years, XZ is very recent and may still > be buggy at times. We'll only know that when people will complain that > they cannot open one file from time to time. > > Willy > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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