Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:04:35 +0300 From: Stanislav Sedov <stas@FreeBSD.org> To: bf2006a@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? 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>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:51:33 -0800 (PST) bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com> 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-----
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