Hello Bob, and thanks.
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
The approach that lzip used satisifies the standard GNU-mandated
configuration requirements. Due to using only standard C++, it only
needs to configure aspects such as the compiler used and installation
prefix. This approach leads to a very small source package similar to
that of gzip and bzip2. The drawback of using standard C++ is that C++
has only been standardized since 1998 and a C++-runtime library is
required in order for lzip to be used. This means that lzip might not
be available in every possible circumstance (but there is always the
gzip fallback).
For those "possible circumstances" there is clzip[1], a C89 versión of
lzip. And for even more stripped down systems there is lunzip[2], a
small C89 decompressor.
[1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/clzip.html
[2] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lunzip.html
BTW Stefano, what do you think about supporting parallel versions of the
compressors, like lbzip2[3] or plzip[4]?
[3] http://freecode.com/projects/lbzip2
[4] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html
Best regards,
Antonio.
