On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Montag, 11. Mai 2009 20:58:50 schrieb Hugo Doria:
I am sorry for resurrect this thread, but i wish to know what was decided about lzma. I still think that lzma could be a good use for us.
BTW, Slackware will use the lzma compression: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt
-- Hugo
I think we just need to wait until xz is stable and there is a libarchive version supporting it. According to http://tukaani.org/xz/ the file format itself seems stable but the tools not(?).
From the libarchive 2.7.0 release notes (whoops, this is still sitting in testing but is not currently built with lzma/xz support):
* First-class support for lzma and xz reading and writing, using the newly-released liblzma libraries. For libarchive to support lzma/xz natively, we would need liblzma in core as well. Thoughts? -Dan