Replying to Michal It's not like lzip is a huge project, it's quite small in all its variants, at least the binary.
It's called modularity within a huge monolith. Popularity is a tricky thing but I believe what I said has a truth to it, 'cause I read someone else saying the same thing. The C++ thing probably applied at the beginning of the project (I read it started before xz, but never took off for some reason), today it makes no difference of course. But it's hard not to notice that lzip is C++ when compiling stattic binaries, this is off topic of course. It certainly is way better than bzip2 (& lzma), the fact that some GNU projects ( https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-latest.tar.bz2 ) still use bz2 instead of lzip is outrageous, bzip2 should have died a long time ago. Today there's is fast-lzma2 project that combines some zstd code (facebook compression), so people always branch out, but it would have been nice to see all those experiments happen with lzip instead. These are just random thoughts, I hope nobody is taking this seriously.,
