Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] xz instead of lzma?

[John E. / T. <td...@td...>]

On 6/6/2010 2:41 AM, Erwin Waterlander wrote:
> Isn't lzma depreciated in favour of xz?
> Shouldn't .xz packages be created instead of .lzma?
> GNU tar has a handy short option for xz (-J) and not for lzma.
>    

I sincerely hope LZMA remains the default, because I can add LZMA 
decompression to my own software without pulling in the entire xz 
library. Anyway, the "-a" short option lets tar autodetect the 
compression/decompression format from the extension, including LZMA.

-John E.