[libvirt] Re: [PATCH] also allow use of XZ for Qemu image compression

[Jim Meyering]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
>   Hum, I realize that support of LZOP was added after 0.7.0, so we never
> made a release with it (well except for git snapshot which may have been
> pushed).
>   I wonder if the best is not to just drop the lzop option altogether
> and stick xz as a package dependancy until we have found a way to
> provide at the API level which compression options are actually
> available.
>
>   Opinions ?

Dropping lzop sounds good.  It seems lzop is not very popular.
We don't need that many choices.

Maybe even nuke lzma too before we're stuck with it forever.
Technically, we can do that, since it was added only a month ago,
also after 0.7.0:

  v0.7.0-35-g2d6a581