From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3373 invoked by alias); 30 Jan 2012 06:26:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 3363 invoked by uid 22791); 30 Jan 2012 06:26:55 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SARE_SUB_OBFU_Z,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (140.211.166.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:26:41 +0000 Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5E201B400D; Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:26:40 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger To: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: xz-compressed release tarballs? Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:26:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.0; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, jim@meyering.net References: <87mx9a1ag4.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <201201281809.17343.vapier@gentoo.org> <8362fvxiza.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <8362fvxiza.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1524249.D1cohZd41U"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201300127.57697.vapier@gentoo.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-01/txt/msg00114.txt.bz2 --nextPart1524249.D1cohZd41U Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1097 On Saturday 28 January 2012 22:53:13 Eli Zaretskii wrote: > From: Mike Frysinger > > being a free software developer doesn't mean being able to force > > people to adhere to what works on their personal legacy systems > > where the user refuses to upgrade the software. that is > > unreasonable. >=20 > I cannot and didn't force anyone to do anything. I made a request. > Disagreeing with that request and acting against it is entirely > appropriate and understood; calling it ridiculous or using other > derogatory language is not. sorry, but i guess that's my interpretation. asking people to not use xz e= ven=20 though you've shown no reason other than tar itself on deficient platforms= =20 cannot directly read the compression is ridiculous. it is absolutely trivi= al=20 to decompress it first if you are on such a system as i showed. > There's nothing in MS-Windows systems that can be called "legacy" or > "old". seriously ? there is *plenty* in MS-Windows that can be called both those= =20 things. even MS documents these in great detail in the MSDN. -mike --nextPart1524249.D1cohZd41U Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-length: 836 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPJjhtAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBnWgQAKoqHhsoVZnvKXQfAsApdCVW ahJK5YZaEYrxWO6CgYyKy89vwW8AKbRqbL5E4/QZS5U8d4Nx6YObtbUsh8MmtuOR yMBmSYtX3EK4d8DBOGDV21NuwM3At7XfU3H+suD1RBU7tJlHnQEeHznICkb883VR I4MBLpJIYacWLOnNJ1XsonxiOnt2MtieuT4I7SOhOY7m4UBzbQqh3C3TWFDQ+cn9 aSIC/b/RFnVa9X8v6/i0YCbUrjpyO2680rmcEuNhq9NV3w7/jjy0os0n8S9gkNoH kMC3ncptYchsbnvZa0OIHACB7nFzhCueog4FqNGxYaukDtxavLmUvH4ctzJ+VsSS m0DtUMI+7SiE1WppZbaqwdSZIKm+ZYUEwW04wXjUUUeiUQdBilQaBNhnEmBbxRRg z7hlpnhTU/KgBFYpzgKkkObbwZKBdsAUOY+UCIsQ7enl4GkhWnjnwQb0BlfzU4gJ 3FZUZ5Pp6Ykc4a7BK0Le5aMU1aJedofrkdF1FxMnnjyuWgsTyKLzoHPcSV942NQB n674NWDF6Q9V4SAeBZeYRQL6vnjN4PK/jDYRjgnUWLBYHzPAItQ/ucRreGnHoJlq giYCpP9ya31xtzLQYM5mHuQkbO//4624bTpcDjO17XJt7yF6KqKsFyybC3A+w1Cb en/6GA7xygEcyRT+e6lZ =rg07 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1524249.D1cohZd41U--