bug#31065: Version 2??

[Jim Meyering]

On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 9:08 AM, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.

I like it!