[Lzip-bug] Lzd 1.4 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

I am pleased to announce the release of lzd 1.4.

Lzd is a simplified decompressor for the lzip format with an educational 
purpose. Studying its source code is a good first step to understand how 
lzip works. Lzd is written in C++.

The source code of lzd is used in the lzip manual as a reference 
decompressor in the description of the lzip file format. Reading the lzip 
manual will help you understand the source code. Lzd is compliant with the 
lzip specification[1]; it checks the 3 integrity factors.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-diaz-lzip

Comments about the internet draft above are solicited and should be 
addressed to the lzip's mailing list at lzip-bug@nongnu.org and/or the 
author. Thanks.

The lzd homepage is at http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzd.html

The sources can be downloaded from 
http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/lzd/

The sha256sums are:
041f12826bd9c613fdf034e02ea2c3d846caa99cba1b071ea320900d9ae998ba  lzd-1.4.tar.lz
927f918bbea37bcf6b2ad14804db1d2e4578c0ffb02f900f201ea755d44b1b8a  lzd-1.4.tar.gz

Changes in version 1.4:

  * The constants 'header_size' and 'trailer_size' have been defined, 
instead of using 6 and 20 directly.
(Lzd is supposed to be educational, and using numbers is bad practice).


Regards,
Antonio Diaz, lzd author and maintainer.

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