On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 4:36 PM Ralph Corderoy <ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you're putting effort into researching another compressor then > consider lzip(1). https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html > > Its author compares it against xz in particular. > https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html lzip is cool and all, but the thing is we are talking about storage for distribution on every single person's computer in single-file form, not archiving into a tarball. We are looking at a world where almost every system has xz installed because of some past decisions, unfortunate or not. Regards, Mingye
