From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <782439fbb1c16626a9a1ad8dd736a9dc@proxima.alt.za> To: 9fans@9fans.net Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:08:23 +0200 From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: <59217548.yOxhdzX7bS@krypton> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] xz compression? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 39e667dc-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > the most recent suggestion of "using xz from go" was basically to call the xz > binary from the go code: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19555373/read-xz-files-in-go Even though at the back of my mind there is a nagging desire to implement gccgo in a Plan 9 fashion (for OpenLDAP, if anyone cares), I think the bccgo approach, useful as it is, should be limited to obsolete software. But that's philosophy, rather than pragmatism. Lucio.