Re: [Info-mtools] [PATCH] Add support for lzip to lz/uz

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

David C Niemi wrote:
> I think it is time to think about doing something with lzma, but is lzip 
> or xz the more commonly available command?

If the criterion is going to be "let's use the most used", then perhaps 
we all should use windows and forget about that minority GNU thing.


> I suppose we could look to see what is available.

Lzip is available everywhere, stable, used by GNU developers, written by 
one of them (me), copylefted, and probably the best free compressor ever 
written. What more can you ask? :-)


Best regards,
Antonio.