Pdlzip 1.15-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.15-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.15-rc1.tar.gz
The sha256sums are:
03d13042470078efe835ed951b65f4e750b6e9f90ec7b8589084bcfa8064a8c8
pdlzip-1.15-rc1.tar.lz
60dcb42d105cd4e1f5d4f837ad64a521cfc92bdc4309cc954d0d7d17fa451ed4
pdlzip-1.15-rc1.tar.gz
Please, test it and report any bugs you find.
Pdlzip is a permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data
compressor, intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL
licensed Free Software. The name of pdlzip comes from 'public domain lzip'.
Pdlzip is written in C.
Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the one
of gzip or bzip2. Lzip uses a simplified form of LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov
chain-Algorithm) designed to achieve complete interoperability between
implementations. The maximum dictionary size is 512 MiB so that any lzip
file can be decompressed on 32-bit machines. Lzip provides accurate and
robust 3-factor integrity checking. 'lzip -0' compresses about as fast as
gzip, while 'lzip -9' compresses most files more than bzip2. Decompression
speed is intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip provides better data
recovery capabilities than gzip and bzip2. Lzip has been designed, written,
and tested with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as general-purpose
compressed format for Unix-like systems.
Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files.
Lzma-alone is a very bad format; it is essentially a raw LZMA stream. If you
keep any lzma-alone files, it is advisable to recompress them to lzip
format. Lziprecover can convert some lzma-alone files to lzip format without
recompressing.
Pdlzip includes public domain compression/decompression code from the LZMA
SDK (Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov.
The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/pdlzip.html
Changes in this version:
* '-dvv' and '-tvv' now print (de)compressed sizes instead of compression
ratio. (Sizes are more informative than compression ratio).
* Large numbers in option arguments are now accepted with underscore
separators (-s 123_456_789).
* Large numbers are now printed with underscore separators (123_456_789).
* By default, '--help' now prints a short help screen containing only the
command-line options. For full help, call pdlzip with options '-v --help'.
* 'EXIT STATUS' now has its own section in the man page.
Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
