From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 26 08:44:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BECF71065670; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.ht-systems.ru (mr0.ht-systems.ru [78.110.50.55]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A7A8FC1A; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:44:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stas@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [85.21.245.235] (helo=orion.SpringDaemons.com) by smtp.ht-systems.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1L5FMc-0002ps-5q; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:03:10 +0300 Received: from orion (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.SpringDaemons.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 02AD2398F4; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:04:39 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:04:35 +0300 From: Stanislav Sedov To: bf2006a@yahoo.com Message-Id: <20081126110435.fe722ef8.stas@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <48704.32247.qm@web39107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <9bbcef730811251141w63ad793as6efac3e7156bc2ef@mail.gmail.com> <48704.32247.qm@web39107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Organization: The FreeBSD Project X-XMPP: ssedov@jabber.ru X-Voice: +7 916 849 20 23 X-PGP-Fingerprint: F21E D6CC 5626 9609 6CE2 A385 2BF5 5993 EB26 9581 X-Mailer: carrier-pigeon Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Ivan Voras Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:44:16 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:51:33 -0800 (PST) bf mentioned: > Not so long ago (the end of April, this year) someone tried to switch > ImageMagick to using lzma-compressed tarballs, and caught a lot of flak > from others who were unfamiliar with this form of compression. If Tim > could integrate it with libarchive, I'm sure that it would be more > favorably received. > Indeed, the main argument against was that you need an extra dependency to unpack these, and there's no point in requiring that as bz2 versions were available. - -- Stanislav Sedov ST4096-RIPE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEARECAAYFAkktAxcACgkQK/VZk+smlYF8DQCfVraD3lSYoZNsPVeYf0tWj9Nr q5UAnjVWWhkSakJWq8K634Pap9hdYDRi =9XOq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----