On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just FYI (http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/) : > > "Nov 9, 2008: libarchive 2.6 should be ready for release in a couple > of weeks. It includes the usual bevy of bug fixes and a couple of new > features: a new mtree writer, new lzma decompression support, and long > option support on all platforms for both bsdtar and bsdcpio. 2.5.900 > and later are pre-release test versions; please try them out and let > me know about any issues you find. " > > lzma decompression support looks cool, I wonder how it was > implemented, since I heard before that lzma-utils could not be used > because of its GPL licence. And if it's an implementation from > scratch, I wonder how well it works (and how fast).
LZMA is now LGPL, so linking against it is OK wrt libarchive's BSD license. So it isn't implemented at all in libarchive, only linked to and treated just like gzip and bz2 currently are. It would definitely be interested to do a "version 2.0" of the archive tests like I did before with bzip2 and gzip. > I also wonder if the zip support has improved. There were some > problems with some zip archives, I will have to try that again. I hope it has improved as well, although the number of problematic files has been very small which is nice. If you compile a package of this prerelease, I would be happy to try it out on my system. -Dan _______________________________________________ pacman-dev mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
