Re: [Lzip-bug] [PATCH] lzip on Windows

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Dear Jon,

Thank you for the patch, but I'm afraid I can't accept it by a number of 
reasons.

It is too intrusive. I am pretty sure lines like this
  snprintf( buf, sizeof buf, "%"LZIPLL"d %s", num, p );
will break compilation on some other systems.

It is for a system too different from posix systems, and there is at 
least a way of compiling lzip in windows that does not need to obscure 
the code with conditional compilation constructs; Cygwin.

It is for a concrete compiler, MSVC. But you say that "it doesn't work 
with MSVC yet"!


Have you considered the possibility of maintaining a port? Ports for 
systems very different from the original help to maintain the upstream 
source clean and simple.


Regards,
Antonio.