[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.11-rc4 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pdlzip 1.11-rc4 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.11-rc4.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.11-rc4.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
e95ef38b90db9ea6ac580cc474faab3683e17b8a848267566694943f1c768f52 
pdlzip-1.11-rc4.tar.lz
2b4c563adbec372cb8a40824cbe72bad7471c058c8b27e5c0f73a4cc96e2ec18 
pdlzip-1.11-rc4.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:

  * Pdlzip now does not even open the output file if the input file is a 
terminal.

  * It is now an error to specify two different operations in the command 
line (--decompress and --test).


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.