Any particular benefit of this method over the other ones we support, by the way? lzip has two components, both of which are used: the file format, and
On 1/26/19 8:25 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote: the implementation. Advantages offered by the file format: - integrity checking - easy automated recovery of bit flip errors (most common data corruption type) - data recovery capabilities - very simple (just using the lzip manual, it should be possible to extract data from it by hand, even once LZMA is obsolete) - the format itself is copylefted Advantages offered by the implementation: - versatile (-0 is similar in speed to gzip, -9 compresses more than bzip2 on average) - standardized options and return values (like bzip2, unlike gzip) - dynamic dictionary size The goal of the project was to make a new standard general-use archiver to replace gzip and bzip2 (the author has severe issues with xz[1]). As far as I'm aware, the format and the specification are technically excellent, and I agree that it should likely become the default. Thus, my personal reason for putting it in is as a first step - it can't ever become the default if no one uses it, and nothing supports it (or support is purely silent). [1]: https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html