devurandom <devuran...@gmx.net> added the comment: Yes, xz-utils contains a C library, though it still caries the name "liblzma.so", probably for historic reasons. You are right that xz is a file format based around the lzma algorithm. It just uses a more advanced container format. (lzma-utils had no container at all.)
xz is the successor of lzma, which provides a better compression than bzip2, while decompression speed is comparable with gzip. It is used by the GNU project for source tarball compression (replacing bzip2) and supported by GNU tar. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz, http://tukaani.org/xz/ and http://tukaani.org/lzma/ for reference. ---------- title: xz compression support -> xz compressor support _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6715> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
