On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Pierre Schmitz <pie...@archlinux.de> wrote: > Am Montag, 11. Mai 2009 20:58:50 schrieb Hugo Doria: >> I am sorry for resurrect this thread, but i wish to know what was >> decided about lzma. I still think that lzma could be a good use for >> us. >> >> BTW, Slackware will use the lzma compression: >> ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt >> >> -- Hugo > > I think we just need to wait until xz is stable and there is a libarchive > version supporting it. According to http://tukaani.org/xz/ the file format > itself seems stable but the tools not(?).
>From the libarchive 2.7.0 release notes (whoops, this is still sitting in testing but is not currently built with lzma/xz support): * First-class support for lzma and xz reading and writing, using the newly-released liblzma libraries. For libarchive to support lzma/xz natively, we would need liblzma in core as well. Thoughts? -Dan
