Re: Zutils vs single compressor utilities

[Jim Meyering]

Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> However, I have a profound aversion to using a shell script
>> for any task that I require to be executed in a robust manner.
>>
>> As such, my medium-term goal is to prototype a perl-based tool
>> using IO:Compress that can do the job more efficiently and more
>> robustly than bourne shell-based code can.
>
> Are you sure a runtime dependency of the gzip package on perl is worth
> the trouble?
>
> In any case the coordination issue remains open.
>
> If your future perl-based tools are for gzip files only, like the
> current ones, then I think it is better to rename them to gzdiff, etc.

IO::Compress is multi-format.

> If your future perl-based tools are multi-format, then I think it is
> better to package them independently of compressors. Meanwhile, I
> think it is better to rename the current gzip-only scripts to gzdiff,
> etc.
>
> What do you think?

Let's see how things stand in a month or two.