google / zopfli

Zopfli Compression Algorithm is a compression library programmed in C to perform very good, but slow, deflate or zlib compression.
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please add better version information! #109

Open silent-pc opened 8 years ago

silent-pc commented 8 years ago

i'm new on git hub. sorry if i here wrong.

zopfli and zopflipng works nice, but i missing better versions information. zopfli -h does not show any version information. zopfli -v also does not show any version information. version information in my eyes is nessesary to see if this version newer. newer versions are most better, faster, more stable and secure as an old version. so i like use new versions. but here i cant bad detect which version is latest and best. there are also many zopfli clones wich also dont use any version information, so its possible i use an old and bad version.

this is espacaly importent for all people wich use precompiled packages from the distributions like: apt-get install zopfli i like to use new versions to compress best and fast. but its hard to detect what the best one.

my suggestion: please make -v or -h show an versions-information - like 16.04.29.x (like the date). a short link in the info screen, to this source, and an better documentation would also be nice.

thanks for developing! sorry for my bad english i'm from germany.

TPS commented 8 years ago

Long-standing issue @ #38.…