On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
Am Dienstag, 12. Mai 2009 01:45:47 schrieb Dan McGee:
You snipped out what the libarchive release notes said- liblzma supports xz AND lzma, apparently.
It is all here: http://tukaani.org/xz/
Yes, but if I get it right you need http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-4.999.8beta.tar.gz which should support lzma AND xz format. The lzma-tuils in extra will only support lzma.
Yes, of course. I think we can take some time to let it bake, as there is not an immediate need, and when 5.0 comes out we can move it to core and then rebuild libarchive with support for both. I had done some tests a while back with lzma compression (as it relates to bzip2 and gzip), and the results were not as good as I had hoped. Although the files were smaller, the savings was not near as significant as the increased compression time and slightly increased decompression speed. However, lzma/xz will definitely clock in better than bzip2 when it comes to speed. -Dan