On Mon, 26 Dec 2011, Miles Bader wrote:
What's the difference between xz and lzip anyway...?
I've never even heard of lzip, but the debian package description makes
it sound very similar to xz...
From a layman's standpoint, I noticed right away that lzip is small
and in the spirit of gzip and bzip2 whereas xz is huge (10X more
source code last time I checked) and has many more lines of configure
script than lzip has of source code in its entirety.
However, lzip is written in portable C++ (rather than C) and does not
configure via autotools (because it uses only portable C++) so it is
at a political disadvantage.
These are reasons why I have been a proponent of lzip since this topic
came up a number of years ago.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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