Afternoon, Patch for php7: https://gist.github.com/krakjoe/549ec38161ecd1ad9b8f16f6cf18657e
Run with it, or not ... Cheers Joe On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 14:43, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi! > > On 19.08.2019 at 12:47, Tobias Frei wrote: > > > Today I was asked to contact this list about the 2013-01-01 proposal > > described in Feature Request 63880. > > > > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63880 > > > > Please implement some kind of lzma compression, e.g. xz or lzip, > > alongside gzip and bzip2 in php. > > > > The original proposal asked for xz compression; it seems that one may > > argue in favor of a different implementation such as lzip for reasons I > > found today at > > https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html > > > > My request, although originally made for xz compression, is about > > implementing lzma (or any kind of modern, strong) compression in php to > > hopefully easily replace bzip2 in user applications, such as phpBB's > > database backup function. > > > > Anyone may freely open an RFC or onwiki discussion about this on my > > behalf whenever they like to, and even if they read this message > > multiple years later. > > Thanks for bringing this topic to internals@! > > In my opinion, this extension should start as PECL extension. This > would allow it to be developed independently of the PHP release cycle, > and the API could be adapted if necessary. After the extension has been > stabilized, and if the extension turns out to be generally useful, it > still could be bundled. > > Thanks, > Christoph > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
