Re: support for lzip

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> Is lzip expected to be portable?  Did you receive the email (and patch) 
> that I sent to you a day ago regarding a portability issue?

Lzip is supposed to be portable to posix systems with GCC. It is easy to 
port lzip to some non-posix systems like OS/2[1].
[1] http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=lzip

The lzip format is already supported by at least two LZMA 
implementations based on Pavlov's SDK[2], so it is easily supportable by 
7zip/p7zip.
[2] http://github.com/lloyd/easylzma/tree/master
    http://riemann.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/lzma/lzma.man

I received your patch. Thanks. It will be included in the next version 
of lzip.


> What operating systems and compilers has Lzip been demonstrated to work 
> with?

Dragora GNU/Linux[3] is switching its packaging system to lzip.
[3] http://www.dragora.org/

Lzip has been compiled successfully on the following systems:

  GNU/Linux with GCC:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20724
http://www.andreas-mueller.com/mrepo/centos5-i386/RPMS.dag/repoview/lzip.html
http://packages.debian.org/sid/lzip
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/packages/name/lzip
http://packages.gentoo.org/package/app-arch/lzip
http://cvs.pld-linux.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/SPECS/lzip.spec
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
http://www.sysresccd.org/Detailed-packages-list
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.2/system/lzip/
http://pkgs.slitaz.org/cooking/utilities.html#lzip
http://ports.ako.serveftp.org/

  All major Unix server platforms
http://www.openpkg.org/product/packages/?package=lzip

  IBM AIX
http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Lzip

  HP-UX
http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/lzip-1.5/

  Sun Solaris
ftp://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/solaris-freeware/SOURCES/

  Mac OS X
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/lzip
http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/Lzip.shtml

  AmigaOS
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48010


Regards,
Antonio.