On 24 September 2014 01:18, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
<first.lord.of.teal_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there something wrong with sflate?
I had missed sflate, thanks! Although, having now looked, I'm
envisioning something smaller than sflate.
On 24 September 2014 01:29, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czarkoff_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> IMO generating compressed tarballs with rare compression scheme sucks.
> Aren't tarballs supposed to be lingua franca of data storage?
I don't think the compression format is defined by POSIX; as far as I
can see XZ is really recent but has gained traction in some
distributions. In terms of actual usefulness, this compression scheme
would be a nice addition for suckless based tools to use e.g. package
manager etc. Use outside of suckless is harder to gauge; there are a
lot of compression methods out there.
On 24 September 2014 01:29, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff <czarkoff_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> Ralph Eastwood said:
>> Some time ago, there was some discussion about sbase's tar with
>> compression. I was wondering if this compression tool would
>> necessarily have to be a standard gzip/bzip2/xz implementation.
>
> IMO generating compressed tarballs with rare compression scheme sucks.
> Aren't tarballs supposed to be lingua franca of data storage?
>
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> Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
>
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Received on Wed Sep 24 2014 - 06:42:45 CEST