[Lzip-bug] Pdlzip 1.13-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Pdlzip 1.13-rc1 is ready for testing here
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.13-rc1.tar.lz
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/pdlzip/pdlzip-1.13-rc1.tar.gz

The sha256sums are:
ec8b14c901336d5e966d915f87d8c55cc11d3d4b89baf984718c01937aee2f08 
pdlzip-1.13-rc1.tar.lz
371edbcf82cdb3a00b8649bec066aba70eda8fcb8e08fbf5b3d5a0ce1f6ae99b 
pdlzip-1.13-rc1.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 'Lempel-Ziv-Markov 
chain-Algorithm' (LZMA) stream format to maximize interoperability. The 
maximum dictionary size is 512 MiB so that any lzip file can be decompressed 
on 32-bit machines. Lzip provides accurate and robust 3-factor integrity 
checking. 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.

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 compression/decompression 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:

  * File diagnostics have been reformatted as 'PROGRAM: FILE: MESSAGE'.

  * Diagnostics caused by invalid arguments to command-line options now 
show the argument and the name of the option.

  * The variable MAKEINFO has been added to configure and Makefile.in.

  * It has been documented in INSTALL that when choosing a C standard, the 
POSIX features need to be enabled explicitly:
  ./configure CFLAGS+='--std=c99 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500'


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, pdlzip co-author and maintainer.

--
If you are using gzip, bzip2, or xz, please consider the long-term 
advantages of switching to lzip:
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.html
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/manual/lzip_manual.html#Quality-assurance
http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/safety_of_the_lzip_format.html