XZ embedded bug unpacking linux-3.8.tar.xz

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> 
>>For some reason I haven't heard of lzip at all until now.
> 
> Yes. That's the problem, maybe the main one:
> xz people won on this front hands down,
> even if technically lzip is better.

Lzip is not going to disappear. Maybe a small group of influential 
people already familiarized with lzma-utils helped xz to gain a head 
start, but lzip is much more in line with what is expected from a 
compressor in unix-like systems.

Think about it, and remember the problem that began this thread. What 
LZMA compressor do you think is better for Busibox users; one that 
behaves essentially like gzip and bzip2, or one that users of small 
systems will probably never be able to make full use of?


Regards,
Antonio.