Hi Dan,
Dan Stromberg wrote:
> I'm looking for some example code (C preferred, something else if need be)
The README says:
1.3. Documentation for liblzma
The liblzma API headers include short docs about each function
and data type as Doxygen tags. These docs should be quite OK as
a quick reference.
I have planned to write a bunch of very well documented example
programs, which (due to comments) should work as a tutorial to
various features of liblzma. No such example programs have been
written yet.
For now, if you have never used liblzma, libbzip2, or zlib, I
recommend learning *basics* of zlib API. Once you know that, it
should be easier to learn liblzma.
http://zlib.net/manual.html
http://zlib.net/zlib_how.html
That advice served me well when I was in a similar position. You
might also find doc/examples/xz_pipe_comp.c and src/xz/coder.c itself
helpful. The fundamental function is lzma_code(), which is documented
where it is defined in lzma/base.h.
[...]
> 3) Ideally use a minimum of C preprocessor symbols, as this'll be for a
> ctypes-based module for Python
The values of constants are part of the stable ABI and should not
change from version to version.
[...]
> I'm not just looking for pyliblzma - I want the xz format.
pyliblzma uses the xz format, no?
> I also want
> something I can make production-quality; pyliblzma seems forever beta.
Have you tried contacting Per?
Hope that helps, and good luck.
Jonathan
