On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 3:24 AM, Johannes Pfau <[email protected]> wrote:
> From the xz-utils Homepage: > ----------------------------------- > The core of the XZ Utils compression code is based on LZMA SDK, but it > has been modified quite a lot to be suitable for XZ Utils. The primary > compression algorithm is currently LZMA2, which is used inside the .xz > container format. With typical files, XZ Utils create 30 % smaller > output than gzip and 15 % smaller output than bzip2. > > XZ Utils consist of several components: > [...] > liblzma is a compression library with API similar to that of zlib. > ----------------------------------- > > lzma compression is used in .7z .tar.lzma and .tar.xz files. > > I've written bindings for this liblzma library, so I'd like to know if > there's interest in including liblzma bindings in phobos. > > The bindings are here: > https://github.com/jpf91/lzmad > API docs: > http://jpf91.github.com/lzmad/api/lzma.html > > liblzma is public domain, so it could even be shipped with phobos, if > desired. Pre-compiled windows dlls are also available. > -- > Johannes Pfau > > I would find it useful.
