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I am just curious, why not implement this within gzip instead of forking it out as a completely new project?

• jey 17y ago
  What's the benefit of that? I see downsides: have to deal with the FSF, have to work with the existing codebase, have to fight to get the changes accepted, etc. It can always be ported into gzip if that becomes desirable.
  • krainboltgreene 17y ago
    have to fight to get the changes accepted One of the main reasons I stay the hell away from OSS unless I can fork it.
  • Rexxar 17y ago
    The FSF is not involved in the development of zlib. Moreover, pigz and zlib are maintained/developed by the same person.
    • jey 17y ago
      Non-sequitur? gzip != zlib
      • Rexxar 17y ago
        gzip ~= zlib, It's the same authors and the same algorithms.
• ulrich 17y ago
  That was exactly my thought when seeing the website.