bf wrote: > Tim: > > There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original LZMA > SDK, has placed the latest version, available at: > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma461.tar.bz2 > > into the public domain. It's a mix of ANSI-C and C++ code, and so it > would seem suitable for adoption into the FreeBSD source tree in some > form that could be integrated with bsdtar/libarchive. What do you > think? It would be *really* nice to have this, since in many ways > it is better than bzip2, and many projects have started to distribute > code in lzma-compressed tarballs. It could help us save disk space > and network throughput, and help us with the current problems in > shoehorning releases onto as few cds as possible, etc.
How useful would LZMA be without supporting the .7z file format? Probably not at all, since there isn't a gzip-like file format or wrapper that supports LZMA. Since .7z supports a lot of compression formats and options (unfortunatly saving unix ownership and mode attributes isn't one of them so be careful there!) it would probably be easier to just import p7z - and that's probably out of the question. It's available in the ports just fine.
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