From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751373Ab0BQFlp (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:41:45 -0500 Received: from 1wt.eu ([62.212.114.60]:56449 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751040Ab0BQFlo (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 00:41:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:40:47 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: James Cloos Cc: Jean Delvare , lasse.collin@tukaani.org, Phillip Lougher , linux-kernel , mirrors@kernel.org, users@kernel.org, "FTPAdmin Kernel.org" , Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion Message-ID: <20100217054047.GF18216@1wt.eu> References: <4B744E13.8040004@kernel.org> <20100211205129.GA26105@elf.ucw.cz> <20100213181008.479509f5@hyperion.delvare> <4B773B31.1020802@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20100214102308.1d1d6fff@hyperion.delvare> <20100214094940.GB17999@1wt.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 04:31:59PM -0500, James Cloos wrote: > >>>>> "W" == Willy Tarreau writes: > > W> Well, I personally like to be able to simply run "less patch-2.6.27.45.gz" > W> and have it transparently uncompressed and dumped on my terminal. It > W> doesn't do that on bz2. We could find multiple examples. > > It does here, and lzma & xz, too. And has since just days after Lasse > annouced that the new name would be xz. > > Your LESSOPEN controls that, and can be easily coded to support any archive. Just checked and I found it funny to see that patch-2.6.1.bz2 is not correctly opened while 2.6.27.45.bz2 is. Maybe some things have slightly changed in the tools by that time and the output differs slightly. However bzcat opens them both so the file is not corrupted. This raises the point of the maturity of the tools BTW. GZ is mature, BZ2 has become mature over the years, XZ is very recent and may still be buggy at times. We'll only know that when people will complain that they cannot open one file from time to time. Willy