Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread bf
> > I think you need contact to author. > I don't see information about public domain on russian > page I should add that there has been a discussion of the license change on the project's Sourceforge forums, and the author reaffirms the change: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread bf
sd-hackers@FreeBSD.org > Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 3:04 AM > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:51:33 -0800 (PST) > bf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > > > Not so long ago (the end of April, this year) someone > tried

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-26 Thread bf
--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Andrey V. Elsukov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Andrey V. Elsukov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? > To: "Sean C. Farley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Tim Kientzle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], > freebsd

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-25 Thread bf
> lzma files in the current form are a major PITA. The format doesn't have > a proper header and therefore is not really autodetectable. I'm sure that the format has some shortcomings; however, it is being widely used, and so it would be helpful to be able to deal with such files. To be clear: I'

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-25 Thread bf
--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive? > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 2:41

Re: lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-25 Thread bf
> How useful would LZMA be without supporting the .7z file format? > Probably not at all, since there isn't a gzip-like file format or > wrapper that supports LZMA. ?? Have you looked at this code? Yes, there is: there is an "LZMA compressed file format" and the 7z file format, both of which sup

lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

2008-11-25 Thread bf
disk space and network throughput, and help us with the current problems in shoehorning releases onto as few cds as possible, etc. Regards, b. --- On Thu, 3/6/08, bf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: bf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: bsdtar/libarchive >