[coreboot] Upgrade the 12 years old LZMA libraries - should we do it?

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

Privet Ivan,

I would say that Coreboot should go for the greatest and latest. Since
everything from far back in Time is refined, mostly bug free (unless
the new releases do not include some new introduced bugs, which are
fixed (usually) in immediate releases).

This is more matter of the right chosen strategy, which every package
and/or library should follow.

Zoran
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On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 8:03 PM, Ivan Ivanov <qmastery16 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have noticed that both coreboot and seabios are using the very old
> versions of LZMA SDK. If we will upgrade our LZMA libraries from the
> outdated-by-12-years 4.42 to the current version 18.04 , speed and
> compression ratio should improve and maybe a few bugs will be fixed.
> Do you think it should be done, or you are OK with using such an
> outdated version?
>
> Best regards,
> Ivan Ivanov aka qmastery
>
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