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[Jan Claeys]

Op Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:53:08 +1000
schreef Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com>:

> Incidentally, Tango now supports zlib (used by Zip and gzip) and bzip2
> (used by, surprise, surprise, bzip2) as compression filters.

Actually, also both the .zip & .7z "containers" support bzip2
compression in their recent versions.   :)

> Now, I am aware that LZMA appears to be a generally better compression
> algorithm, but the reason I haven't tried adding support for it yet is
> because there doesn't appear to be a single "liblzma" available.
> There's the official SDK which is written in C++ with lots of
> Windows-specific code (which obviously makes it difficult to use), and
> then there's a portable, independent implementation.
> 
> But, joy of joys, they're not compatible with each other.  *sigh*

There's also p7zip, which seems to work?


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JanC