Orbit - Package Manager - Specification/ideas

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-07-15 19:11, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> The lzma SDK is public domain (lzma is the compression algorithm used
> in 7z), xzutils has a library called liblzma which is based on the lzma
> sdk, easier to use and also public domain. Tar should be easy enough to
> implement in d. Seems like there are more or less recent D
> bindings for liblzma:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D&article_id=117344
> But someone still has to combine those parts together. LZMA bindings
> would also fit nicely into phobos, as we already have zlib in there.

When someone actually does this I can use lzma/7z instead of/in addition 
to zip. But I have no interest myself in creating bindings or building a 
D module.

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/Jacob Carlborg