[ITP] lzip-1.8-1

[JonY]

On 11/8/2009 00:17, JonY wrote:
> On 11/7/2009 23:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:28:52PM +0800, JonY wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm.
>>>
>>> It is in Ubuntu:<http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/lzip>
>>>
>>> The files are under<http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/>.
>>> Unfortunately, its not browsable, here is the file list.
>>>
>>> \---lzip
>>> lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2
>>> lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2
>>> setup.hint
>>>
>>> Example:<http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/setup.hint>
>>>
>>> Homepage:<http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html>
>>>
>>> category: Archive
>>> requires: cygwin libgcc1 libstdc++6
>>> sdesc: "Lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm."
>>> ldesc: "lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very
>>> safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of
>>> gzip or bzip2."
>>
>> We already have xz. Why do we need this?
>>
>> cgf
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> lzip and xz are not exactly compatible.
>
> I find that xz has somewhat better compression ratios but lzip has an
> archive recovery utility.

Hi,

Following Marco's advice, here is a wget'able list for lzip.

http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2
http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2
http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/setup.hint