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.
