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

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Tino Lange wrote:
> > there's plenty of code duplication between lzip and lzlib
>
> BTW - just curious - Antonio, why is this designed like that?

Lzip's code in much cleaner and slightly more efficient this way. It is 
also easier to issue informative messages in case something goes wrong.


> Why isn't lzip just one (reference) program that uses lzlib
> (statically)? Why has lzip its own "included version of lzlib" and you
> have to maintain many things twice?

The (de)compression code is almost identical in lzip and lzlib, so it is 
not much of a problem to maintain it twice.


Regards,
Antonio.