2008/11/26 Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> There's also something called "lzop", though I'm not
> yet sure what exactly that is.
lzop is the LZO archiver - created for high-speed compression, not
compression efficiency. Unfortunately, LZO is GPL :(
But that reminds me - while you're adding c
Ivan Voras wrote:
bf wrote:
There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original LZMA
SDK, has placed the latest version, available at:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma461.tar.bz2
into the public domain. It's a mix of ANSI-C and C++ code, and so it
would seem sui
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:02:02 +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
>
> How useful would LZMA be without supporting the .7z file format?
> Probably not at all, since there isn't a gzip-like file format or
> wrapper that supports LZMA.
tar.lzma is quite popular
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bf wrote:
I think you need contact to author.
I don't see information about public domain on russian
page
I should add that there has been a discussion of the license
change on the project's Sourceforge forums, and the author reaffirms
the change:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_
>
> I think you need contact to author.
> I don't see information about public domain on russian
> page
I should add that there has been a discussion of the license
change on the project's Sourceforge forums, and the author reaffirms
the change:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=
--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Stanislav Sedov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Stanislav Sedov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: "Ivan Voras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, freeb
--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Andrey V. Elsukov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Andrey V. Elsukov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?
> To: "Sean C. Farley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "Tim Ki
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:51:33 -0800 (PST)
bf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned:
> Not so long ago (the end of April, this year) someone tried to switch
> ImageMagick to using lzma-compressed tarballs, and caught a lot of flak
> from others who were unfami
Sean C. Farley wrote:
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tim Kientzle wrote:
Where is the announcement of this change?
I haven't downloaded the code yet, but the
sourceforge project pages all still say GPL.
It is on the SDK page: http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html
I think you need contact to author.
I don't
> lzma files in the current form are a major PITA. The format doesn't have
> a proper header and therefore is not really autodetectable.
I'm sure that the format has some shortcomings; however, it is being widely
used, and so it would be helpful to be able to deal with such files. To be
clear: I'
--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 2:41
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:56:24AM -0800, bf wrote:
> ?? Have you looked at this code? Yes, there is: there is an "LZMA
> compressed file format" and the 7z file format, both of which support
> LZMA. The former format has been widely adopted by people who distribute
> lzma-compressed tarballs, es
2008/11/25 bf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> How useful would LZMA be without supporting the .7z file format?
>> Probably not at all, since there isn't a gzip-like file format or
>> wrapper that supports LZMA.
>
> ?? Have you looked at this code? Yes, there is: there is an "LZMA
> compressed file format
> How useful would LZMA be without supporting the .7z file format?
> Probably not at all, since there isn't a gzip-like file format or
> wrapper that supports LZMA.
?? Have you looked at this code? Yes, there is: there is an "LZMA
compressed file format" and the 7z file format, both of which sup
bf wrote:
> Tim:
>
> There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original LZMA
> SDK, has placed the latest version, available at:
>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma461.tar.bz2
>
> into the public domain. It's a mix of ANSI-C and C++ code, and so it
> would seem s
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tim Kientzle wrote:
Where is the announcement of this change?
I haven't downloaded the code yet, but the
sourceforge project pages all still say GPL.
It is on the SDK page: http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html
bf wrote:
Tim:
There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary auth
Where is the announcement of this change?
I haven't downloaded the code yet, but the
sourceforge project pages all still say GPL.
Tim
bf wrote:
Tim:
There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original LZMA
SDK, has placed the latest version, available at:
http://downloads.so
Tim:
There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original LZMA
SDK, has placed the latest version, available at:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma461.tar.bz2
into the public domain. It's a mix of ANSI-C and C++ code, and so it
would seem suitable for adoption into th
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