lzma compression/decompression in bsdtar/libarchive?

[Sean C. Farley]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tim Kientzle wrote:

> Where is the announcement of this change?
>
> I haven't downloaded the code yet, but the
> sourceforge project pages all still say GPL.

It is on the SDK page:  http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html

> bf wrote:
>> Tim:
>> 
>> There is good news: Igor Pavlov, the primary author of the original
>> LZMA SDK, has placed the latest version, available at:
>> 
>> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/lzma461.tar.bz2
>> 
>> into the public domain.  It's a mix of ANSI-C and C++ code, and so it
>> would seem suitable for adoption into the FreeBSD source tree in some
>> form that could be integrated with bsdtar/libarchive.  What do you
>> think?  It would be *really* nice to have this, since in many ways it
>> is better than bzip2, and many projects have started to distribute
>> code in lzma-compressed tarballs.  It could help us save disk space
>> and network throughput, and help us with the current problems in
>> shoehorning releases onto as few cds as possible, etc.
*snip*

Sean
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