The mingw-xz package provides a version of the xz compression library and tools built using the standard windows runtime library and NOT cygwin. It is (or will be) used by setup.exe and is provided specifically for that purpose. No other uses are supported. However, for testing purposes it does provide mingw versions of the following tools: mingw-xz.exe, mingw-xzdec.exe, and mingw-lzmadec.exe, in addition to the libraries and headers needed for setup.exe development.
The xz package is the successor to lzma. Its command-line tools support both .lzma files and the new .xz format. The xz package provides a new runtime library: liblzma supports encoding as well as decoding, both .lzma and .xz streams. This is a bugfix update that corrects a possible data corruption error in earlier releases. It is claimed that 4.999.9beta is the last beta release before 5.0 final, and that no substantive changes are expected in the interim; that is, this is a "release candidate". [[ compiled using gcc-3.4.4-999/-mno-cygwin ]] CHANGES (since 4.999.8beta_20090714-10) ======================== o Update to latest upstream release o Use (new) upstream xz.1 in preference to cygwin-custom attempt at a man page (renamed to mingw-xz.1, of course). o Upstream: - Lots of documentation updates - Fixes data corruption error - C++ compatiblity fixes - New lzmainfo utility - Fixes to helper scripts (xzdiff, xzless, etc) - Other miscellaneous bug fixes and build improvements - Distribute a changelog derived from git log. -- Charles Wilson volunteer mingw-xz maintainer for cygwin ==================================================================== To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-you=yourdomain....@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sourceware.org/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
