On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Danek Duvall wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:34:34PM -0700, Clay Baenziger wrote:
>
>> Working with the LZMA compression code from 7zip a lot right now, I can
>> attest that the decompression code is pretty easy to mold C code. The
>> compression code is a much larger chunk of C++ code, but I might have a C
>> based port soon too.
>
> Oooooh, bless you!  If you can pull that out into a library (or at least
> into object files I can then stuff into a library), we can wrap it in
> Python.  That would be very nice.

Wrapping lzma into a library is one of the deliverables
of this project. As has been pointed out earlier, the 
decompression code already exists as C code as part of 
7zip. The compression code is the harder part.

Then, there's ofcourse the pending legal review that is
critical.

Alok


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