20 May
2008
20 May
'08
8:20 a.m.
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Jan de Groot <jan@jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
Pacman itself is ready for .tar.bz2 package files. The whole issue with .bz2 files is that compression and decompression times increase a lot without giving the same amount of size reduction back. We've done some recent tests with LZMA, which compresses just as good as bzip2 at the lowest compression rate, but does it at the same speed as gzip. The downside is that LZMA is not supported by libarchive, and won't be supported officially either, because libarchive is BSD licensed and LZMA is GPL licensed.
Is it possible and/or realistic to imagine a BSD licensed implementation of LZMA?