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Were there many prominent open source projects using the LZMA format before the creation of xz? Debian, for example (which is where this particular flamefest or

by jl6 10y ago

Were there many prominent open source projects using the LZMA format before the creation of xz? Debian, for example (which is where this particular flamefest originates), adopted[0] xz the year following the stable v5.0.0 of XZ-Utils[1]. My impression was that the whole 7zip->p7zip->lzma_alone->xz journey was concluded before any "xz hype" began. [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/08/msg00001.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/08/msg00... [1] http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD http://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=blob;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD

saurik 10y ago
I don't quite understand the timeline you are drawing here but the Debian Package Manager is a perfect example of a prominent open source project which used the LZMA format before the creation of xz. They recently shifted to "deprecate" the LZMA format, a change which I have removed from the negligible fork of dpkg I ship to the tens of millions of people running Cydia.