[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.8-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pdlzip 1.8-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.8-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.8-rc2.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
c3622ff767ea553cb64b3a60eddf13ebf0ec8a7f53fc241b5edfd9d65f4ce476 
pdlzip-1.8-rc2.tar.lz
38ef62dc3731b5f397a5fbd9a2fed1ac5636ca486a1d2b7352f5bb9cd892b69a 
pdlzip-1.8-rc2.tar.gz

Please, test it and report any bugs you find.

Pdlzip is a lossless data compressor with a user interface similar to 
the one of lzip, bzip2 or gzip.

Pdlzip uses the lzip file format; the files produced by pdlzip are 
(hope)fully compatible with lzip-1.4 or newer. Pdlzip is in fact 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").

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:

  * In test mode, pdlzip now continues checking the rest of the files 
if any input file is a terminal.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.

--
If you are distributing software in xz format, please consider using 
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http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#busybox