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> The commonly-used technology is by far the best choice for long term archiving, because something that has a billion users will go obsolete/unreadable a long
by SrslyJosh 3y ago
> The commonly-used technology is by far the best choice for long term archiving, because something that has a billion users will go obsolete/unreadable a long time after a fancy compressor written by a phd student in your lab.
Did you read the article? `xz` is far more complex than the alternatives. Your analogy doesn't make sense in this scenario.
> If I were running an archive today, I would be keeping everything in .zip files
So...not xz. Okay.
- londons_explore 3y agocomplexity doesn't matter really... You aren't going to be reading these with a hex editor. What matters is that decompression software is widely available today, and will be long into the future. While thats kinda true for .xz, it's far far more true for .zip.