[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.11-rc3 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pdlzip 1.11-rc3 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.11-rc3.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.11-rc3.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
2f5766ca93051c41a8b71bcf1325846f44382dbd2c22414c5c9e7cc0d4568828 
pdlzip-1.11-rc3.tar.lz
4221bffa91f54469e962082a5d90bc6d2784331781dc2f17c17ddc4e9939389d 
pdlzip-1.11-rc3.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 uses a simplified form of the LZMA stream format 
chosen to maximize safety and interoperability. 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:

  * Option '-o, --output' now behaves like '-c, --stdout', but sending the 
output unconditionally to a file instead of to standard output. See the new 
description of '-o' in the manual. This change is backwards compatible only 
when (de)compressing from standard input alone. Therefore commands like:
  pdlzip -o foo.lz - bar < foo
must now be split into:
  pdlzip -o foo.lz - < foo
  pdlzip bar
or rewritten as:
  pdlzip - bar < foo > foo.lz

  * When using '-c' or '-o', pdlzip now checks whether the output is a 
terminal only once.


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.
Self-determination is a human right. Free Catalan political prisoners.
--
If you care about interoperability and 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.