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Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ CHANGES INSTALL rpm/rpmio/ LzmaDecode.c LzmaDecode.h L...

From: Anders F Björklund <afb@rpm5.org>
Date: Wed 02 Apr 2008 - 21:25:30 CEST
Message-Id: <7DC21CE9-830C-43F4-9F40-E7BF4F344A67@rpm5.org>
Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote:

>> Please revert, and let's keep LZMA reasonably sane - instead of the
>> hodge-podge merge of tukaani.org and 7-zip.org that Mandriva uses...
> As the decoder itself only uses LzmaDecode.c from lzma sdk, I don't  
> see how
> this relates to lzma utils nor how it's packaged in Mandriva.
>>
>> Even if that means staying with LZMA 4.32 until the new one is ready.
>> (unfortunately also means staying with the old LZMA_Alone file  
>> format)
> I don't see see why this unless there would be any  
> incompatibilities caused by
> it..

Sorry for over-reacting here, only that is was some degree hassle  
getting
the two components to interact and the house of cards needs some  
balance...

The LZMA SDK and forking a compressor is not exactly the preferred  
solution,
so everyone will be happier once the new liblzma and file format is  
released.

--anders
Received on Wed Apr 2 21:25:41 2008
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