<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 7, 2024, 18:25 Rob Landley <<a href="mailto:rob@landley.net">rob@landley.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 12/6/24 13:57, enh wrote:<br>
> We're seeing ever more zstd-compressed files in the wild, so even though<br>
> toybox can't compress/decompress zstd without an external helper, it<br>
> still seems useful to integrate with any that happens to be on the<br>
> system.<br>
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No short option for zstd, even though every other explicit archive <br>
format has one?<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">technically there are a couple of other compression options that are longopt only, such as --lzma (but i haven't added those here because i've yet to see them used).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">this probably made sense when it was added in 2019, and it wasn't clear how popular, zstd was going to become. (especially in comparison to the other options we don't have.)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">though tbh, zstd seems more popular in non-tar contexts ... i had to ask the internet what the long and short extensions were!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Rob<br>
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