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Re: Automake 1.11.2 released
From: |
Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: |
Re: Automake 1.11.2 released |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:18:49 -0600 (CST) |
User-agent: |
Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14) |
On Mon, 26 Dec 2011, Miles Bader wrote:
What's the difference between xz and lzip anyway...?
I've never even heard of lzip, but the debian package description makes
it sound very similar to xz...
From a layman's standpoint, I noticed right away that lzip is small
and in the spirit of gzip and bzip2 whereas xz is huge (10X more
source code last time I checked) and has many more lines of configure
script than lzip has of source code in its entirety.
However, lzip is written in portable C++ (rather than C) and does not
configure via autotools (because it uses only portable C++) so it is
at a political disadvantage.
These are reasons why I have been a proponent of lzip since this topic
came up a number of years ago.
Bob
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- Automake 1.11.2 released, Stefano Lattarini, 2011/12/22
- Re: Automake 1.11.2 released, Miles Bader, 2011/12/25
- Re: Automake 1.11.2 released, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2011/12/26
- Re: Automake 1.11.2 released,
Bob Friesenhahn <=
- Re: Automake 1.11.2 released, Dave Hart, 2011/12/27
- Re: Automake 1.11.2 released, Bob Friesenhahn, 2011/12/27
- Re: Automake 1.11.2 released, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2011/12/27
- Add support for user-defined compressors (was: Re: Automake 1.11.2 released), Stefano Lattarini, 2011/12/30