Hi Denys ! >What I'm saying is that bbox project would like to have is (ideally) >_one_ LZMA decoder. Unpacking the compressed stream from two formats >isn't a terribly difficult thing.
You are right and I don't want to start another format war. In addition to this there is one issue which lets me hop on that lzip. It is not only an LZMA decompressor it has also a compressor counterpart in Busybox. A compressor with gives better results than bzip2. And there is no small xz compressor available for Busybox, or is there any light at the horizont? And what about lzop? It is another compressor not very widely used. Why can't we have those lzip compressor in Busybox? Those who dislike that format may disable it in configuration. ... but another time: You are right, it would be very nice to have a single LZMA decompressor to uncompress lzma, lzip and xz streams. If this is possible. ... just as it would be nice to have a single zcat able to detect the format and decompress ANY compressed stream (falling back to operation of cat, if uncompressed data given to zcat). With a generalized uncompress to do "zcat file >temp"; then rename temp and mangle name extensions" (like gunzip). -- Harald _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
