Re: lzip support

[Bob Friesenhahn]

Since LZIP support has appeared apparently out of the blue (no prior 
discussion on this list), and Automake already had LZMA support, can 
someone please explain LZIP vs LZMA and why we now have at least two 
LZMA compressed targets?  Is offering support for two LZMA compressors 
encouraging the continued babbelization and subsequent disintegration 
of GNU projects?

I see that LZIP is GPL licensed and is pretty small, and with just one 
author.  It also seems that LZIP is not capable of decoding LZMA utils 
output.

If automake now supports 'lzip', why does it not also offer to support 
7-Zip', 'srpm', 'zoo', 'arc', and the many other possible archiving 
formats so that confusion of the user base can become complete?

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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