bug#31065: Version 2??

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/04/2018 06:09 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> maybe 2.0 to keep it
> short and simple.

I have a more-drastic idea in mind. Let's replace gzip's source code 
with pigz's, make the minimal set of changes needed to make it 
compatible with gzip and/or GNU in general, and call it gzip 2.0. In the 
meantime, we can keep the gzip 1 series around with the traditional 
implementation.