Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:02:02 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? Message-ID: <gghej8$qq0$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <259774.68895.qm@web39105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <259774.68895.qm@web39105.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] bf wrote: > Tim: > > There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original LZMA > SDK, has placed the latest version, available at: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma461.tar.bz2 > > into the public domain. It's a mix of ANSI-C and C++ code, and so it > would seem suitable for adoption into the FreeBSD source tree in some > form that could be integrated with bsdtar/libarchive. What do you > think? It would be *really* nice to have this, since in many ways > it is better than bzip2, and many projects have started to distribute > code in lzma-compressed tarballs. It could help us save disk space > and network throughput, and help us with the current problems in > shoehorning releases onto as few cds as possible, etc. How useful would LZMA be without supporting the .7z file format? Probably not at all, since there isn't a gzip-like file format or wrapper that supports LZMA. Since .7z supports a lot of compression formats and options (unfortunatly saving unix ownership and mode attributes isn't one of them so be careful there!) it would probably be easier to just import p7z - and that's probably out of the question. It's available in the ports just fine. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkksPaQACgkQldnAQVacBcjJxACgmRBxCKVtadUtczpd8IY4yaU9 +NoAoIR6nyD8K81UC1xzYvwUp53duHZg =DfHr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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