Re: [kernel.org users] XZ Migration discussion

[Stefan Richter]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2010-02-13 10:59:44, Stefan Richter wrote:
>> As a side note:  7zip, a very popular and Free archiving tool for
>> Windows, supports xz since its version 9 which is currently available as
>> a beta.  So, WRT the need to get an extra unarchiver, xz is just as
>> accessible to Windows users as gz is.
> 
> Wow, what a stretch.
> 
> There's about milion tools supporting gz for Windows, and many of them
> are out of beta...

And roughly half of this million archiving/ compression tools use 7zip's
backend library, which is just one way of getting xz support in a
Windows application.  Besides, what one project calls beta is called
dot-zero release elsewhere. :-)  Seriously, getting xz support on
Windows is just as easy or as difficult as getting gz support.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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