Log file compression

[Julien ÉLIE]

Hi Christoph,

> I looked for all the places that mention gzip, duplicated the
> block, and ended up with modifying [7 files].
> But this feels like going the wrong direction. The zoo of compression
> methods is huge, and next week somebody would ask for lzip or zstd.

I see your point.  Yes I agree we should do better than just hard-coding 
xz support.


> And from your follow-up, that innshellvars.local idea, I'd call it an
> ugly hack, and I am not that desperate to give it a try :)

:-)


> And by the way, would it hurt a lot to replace the "Z" variable name
> with something like "compress_ext"? While I'm one of those who still
> understand where that comes from - technically it's wrong, and it's
> almost 25 years since I've have last seen .Z files in the wild.

Agreed.

To not forget these points (changing the Z variable name, and adding 
native support in scanlogs/news.daily for a run-time configuration of 
the compression command to use), I've opened ticket #298, scheduled for 
an ulterior release (INN 2.7.3).  I'm currently focusing on finishing 
the remaining open stuff since the last release; I hope to begin the 
release process of INN 2.7.2 in March or April.

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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