Re: Please, use --check=crc32 or switch to a safe format

[Matias Fonzo]

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 16:16:53 -0300
Matias Fonzo <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 10:31:50 -0500
> Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On 04/05/2017 09:42 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> >   
> > > Is there any chance to fix the problem once and for all by
> > > switching to lzip (as Eric Blake proposed[1]), instead of asking
> > > others to just palliate some of the symptoms?
> > > 
> > > [1]
> > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-01/msg00008.html    
> > 
> > Note that I was not proposing "switching to lzip", but "adding lzip
> > in parallel to existing xz".  I still think that parallel
> > distribution formats is probably worthwhile, but I'm not strongly
> > convinced enough to push my patch through against the wishes of
> > other core developers on the project.
> >   
> 
> Can developers release (liberate) the ego?.  There's nothing wrong in
> want to provide a "second" format, this increases the chances for
> accessing the project, inspect, study, etc.
> 

Maybe this can help in the decision -- from the author of xz[1]:
"XZ Utils is already an over-engineered pig".

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg00076.html


All the best,
Matias

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