From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:58:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Add Gitweb support for LZMA compressed snapshots
Message-ID: <87tz0rinrv.fsf@meyering.net>
In-Reply-To: <81b0412b0908010043y51680392r69a0090aba520b13@mail.gmail.com>

Alex Riesen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:44, J.H.<warthog19@eaglescrag.net> wrote:
>> Don't use 'lzma' the command, use 'xz' ( http://tukaani.org/xz/ ) as it uses
>
> The host seems to be down.
>
>> the lzma2 format which is, by far, preferable to what 'lzma' outputs.  Same
>> compression (lzma) just different file format.
>
> And the whole project seems to be very young (listen on ohloh since 2007).
> And it is not in current stable distributions. Exotic thing.

XZ is young, but worthy, imho.
It was added to Fedora 11 in the last few days.