[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.11-rc2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pdlzip 1.11-rc2 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.11-rc2.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.11-rc2.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
65079a3708c712017daa10cab62e6a87d59fa815d2748acbad9a50a3643e3f77 
pdlzip-1.11-rc2.tar.lz
23826b490329b7d0f59d491c6f5746863d2d48bdb613a25156a9993a65b75cd3 
pdlzip-1.11-rc2.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. Lzip has been designed, written, and tested 
with great care to replace gzip and bzip2 as the standard general-purpose 
compressed format for unix-like systems.

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:

  * The words 'decompressed' and 'compressed' have been replaced with the 
shorter 'out' and 'in' in the verbose output when decompressing or testing.

  * The commands needed to extract files from a tar.lz archive have been 
documented in the output of '--help' and in the man page.

  * 2 new test files have been added to the testsuite.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a human right. Free Catalan political prisoners.
--
If you care about long-term archiving, please help me replace xz with lzip. 
See http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html#xz1
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance and
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html Thanks.