Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:33:49 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sat 2010-02-13 10:59:44, Stefan Richter wrote: >> As a side note: 7zip, a very popular and Free archiving tool for >> Windows, supports xz since its version 9 which is currently available as >> a beta. So, WRT the need to get an extra unarchiver, xz is just as >> accessible to Windows users as gz is. > > Wow, what a stretch. > > There's about milion tools supporting gz for Windows, and many of them > are out of beta...
And roughly half of this million archiving/ compression tools use 7zip's backend library, which is just one way of getting xz support in a Windows application. Besides, what one project calls beta is called dot-zero release elsewhere. :-) Seriously, getting xz support on Windows is just as easy or as difficult as getting gz support. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- --=- -===- http://arcgraph.de/sr/
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