[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.10-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pdlzip 1.10-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.10-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.10-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
20cc581d79661a0de0918a56649f53a1ed45c0ad2aa0c9cb3671237cfcb84e42 
pdlzip-1.10-rc1.tar.lz
6528ab85af5d314a953a08bbf30a00718d32f7304f12ce0f694f771985f0a8fb 
pdlzip-1.10-rc1.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Pdlzip is a permissively licensed implementation of the lzip data 
compressor, intended for those who can't distribute (or even use) GPL 
licensed Free Software. (The name of pdlzip comes from 'public domain 
lzip'). Pdlzip is written in C and is (hope)fully compatible with lzip 
1.4 or newer.

Lzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to the 
one of gzip or bzip2. Lzip can compress about as fast as gzip (lzip -0) 
or compress most files more than bzip2 (lzip -9). Decompression speed is 
intermediate between gzip and bzip2. Lzip is better than gzip and bzip2 
from a data recovery perspective.

The lzip file format is designed for data sharing and long-term 
archiving, taking into account both data integrity and decoder availability.

Pdlzip is also able to decompress legacy lzma-alone (.lzma) files. 
Lzma-alone is a very bad format; it is essentially a raw LZMA stream. If 
you keep any lzma-alone files, it is advisable to recompress them to 
lzip format. Lziprecover can convert some lzma-alone files to lzip 
format without recompressing.

Pdlzip includes public domain (de)compression code from the LZMA SDK 
(Software Development Kit) written by Igor Pavlov.

The homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/pdlzip.html


Changes in this version:

  * Compression level '-0' now uses a dictionary size of 64 KiB instead 
of 1 MiB.

  * Errors are now also checked when closing the input file.

  * Pdlzip now compiles on DOS with DJGPP. (Patch from Robert Riebisch).

  * The configure script now accepts appending options to CFLAGS using 
the syntax 'CFLAGS+=OPTIONS'.

  * It has been documented in INSTALL the use of
    CFLAGS+='-D __USE_MINGW_ANSI_STDIO' when compiling on MinGW.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.
Europe, wake up! There are political prisoners on hunger strike in Spain.
--
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http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html