On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:54:41 +0200 Thomas Gstädtner <tho...@gstaedtner.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 20:15, Vincent Torri<vto...@univ-evry.fr> > wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, David Seikel wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 08:40:32 +0200 (CEST) Vincent Torri > >> <vto...@univ-evry.fr> wrote: > >> > >>> while looking at the doc of UPX, i've found that lossless > >>> (de)compression library: > >>> > >>> http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/ > >>> > >>> which says to compress better and to be faster decompression than > >>> zlib. > >>> > >>> There is no comparison numbers, but maybe it is worth trying to > >>> compare zlib and that lib to see if it would be better to use it > >>> in eet. > >> > >> There are other contenders, generally more modern compression > >> schemes that are generally ignored coz things like zip, gz, and > >> bz2 are too firmly embedded in our conciousness. Too much > >> historical inertia is not good. > >> > >> So, if this is to be done, a more thorough roundup of them all > >> would be the way to go. > > > > Maybe it's not so good for us: that library is GPL. If I'm not > > mistaken, that would mean that eet must be GPL too, right ? > > > > Vincent > > > > Yes, this is under a GPLv2+ license with additional commercial > licensing, so I don't see any chance to use it in any non-GPL or > non-commercial application - except calling the binary directly > without including any sourcecode itself. > > But there are alternatives: The best one is most likely XZ (the > successor of lzma) which usually compresses at a 2-digit percentage > better compared to gzip at the cost of slightly more computing time to > decompress and a lot more to compress (still better than bzip2 in any > case). > It's available under LGPL so, there should be no problems with the > license. http://tukaani.org/xz/ Which is why i said a thorough roundup of them all should be done, not just "best one is most likely foo". lol
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