If you hadn't heard about 'lzma' yet then it is a good one to note Perhaps I should mention ...
There are some technical problems with the lzma format -- not the compression method itself, which is basically zip with different parameters, but the surrounding scaffolding. The author of lzma-utils (Lasse Collin) is working with the original lzma format designer (Igor Pavlov) to rectify the problems, with the intent of releasing a new format (and tools) named "xz" in the relatively near future. karl
