[BusyBox] Re: [uClibc] LZMA (Patches for busybox and buildroot)

[Rob Landley]

On Saturday 07 May 2005 03:40 am, Ming-Ching Tiew wrote:

> > Well, I'm interested in seeing it.  If you either post it to the list or
> > send me a copy, I'll try to look over it this weekend...
>
> Sounds to me it's like basing on the wrong code. The decompressor
> is already in very neat c code, what is there to still  translate ?
>
> By the way, the 7zip LZMA sdk contains a standalone
> compressor/decompressor in C++ ( which I found out later ) and
> also standalone C code decompressor. It appears to be that the
> 7zip LZMA sdk is more defacto that anything else.
>
> Just my gut feel.

The 7zip one is the one Manuel pointed me to a few months ago when lzma first 
came up.

Basically, I asked if he was interested in going over the bzip compression 
side rewrite I did the same way he did the bunzip code, and he said he was 
more interested in lzma (which compresses better than bzip and is much 
faster).

Rob