Magnus Therning wrote:
On 24/04/10 08:02, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello Leon,
Saturday, April 24, 2010, 12:23:58 AM, you wrote:
file nearly a third smaller. Given that many modern variants of the "tar" command support .tar.lzma files directly isn't latest version of lzma-based compression use .xz extension?
How common is support for .xz on the platforms we are interested in here?
I just passed a .tar.xz to a Mac user and got an email back that he couldn't unpack it. Rather than dig deeper I just sent him a .tar.gz, so I don't know what tool he was using.
Not very. dpkg may support it in the future, but that is a somewhat closed platform where Debian folks are in charge of both the archive and the tool used to unpack it. I would be shocked to find xz preinstalled on a MacOS, AIX, or Solaris box. That even goes for bzip2 on some of those platforms. (At least we seem to be beyond the days when we still had to provide .Z files...)