Re: NEWS: added support for lzma compression

[NightStrike]

On 10/11/07, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
> FYI, I added support for LZMA[1] compression a few days ago:
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2007-10/msg00003.html
>
> So now you can put this in your configure.ac file
>   AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([dist-lzma])
> and "make dist" will generate both .gz and .lzma compressed tarballs.
>
> This started when I discovered p7zip a few weeks ago and was flabbergasted
> to see that it compressed the coreutils tarball to a measly 3.3MB(!),
> while bzip2 managed to compress it to only 5.3MB.  The gzip'd tarball
> weighs in at 8.4MB.
>
> In addition, it usually decompressed at least twice as fast as bzip2.
> My other test case was the emacs tarball.  It compressed it to 24MB,
> which was 6MB smaller than the bzip2-compressed size.
> Pretty impressive.
>
> lzma uses the same core compression technology (based on 7zip, originally
> written for windows), but it's been converted to c99, and its command-line
> interface is a lot more like gzip and bzip2.
>
> For now, there is neither a mailing list, nor a publicly accessible
> repository for lzma, but with a little luck we'll have both before
> too long.
>
> [1] http://tukaani.org/lzma/
>
>
>
When will this be in an automake release?