https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15216
Peter Wu <pe...@lekensteyn.nl> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Summary|zstandard (zst) file format |zstandard (zstd) file
|support |compression support
--- Comment #7 from Peter Wu <pe...@lekensteyn.nl> ---
(In reply to Nathan Myers from comment #5)
> I would not want to put off supporting lz4 or zstd to wait for xz/lzma or
> bz2, because those are obsolete formats.
I doubt that support for bzip2 will ever be added, its quite slow. Adding any
new compression format roughly requires the same amount of work, except that
the very first new format requires extra work in the user interface. (Currently
there is either compression or not.)
> I might even suggest dropping gz
Unlikely going to happen, gzip support is ubiquitous.
If it is of any significance, here are the number of packages in Arch Linux
that depend on a compression library:
268 zlib
74 bzip2
60 xz
33 lz4
27 lzo
17 snappy
11 zstd
2 brotli
Of these libraries, zlib, snappy and lz4 are already optional dependencies for
Wireshark.
I am not against adding zstd/lz4 support, but like I said before there must be
a measurable benefit since a new format will have to be maintained.
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