[ITP] lzip-1.8-1

[JonY]

On 11/7/2009 23:29, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 12:28:52PM +0800, JonY wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Lzip is a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm.
>>
>> It is in Ubuntu:<http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/lzip>
>>
>> The files are under<http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/>.
>> Unfortunately, its not browsable, here is the file list.
>>
>> \---lzip
>>          lzip-1.8-1-src.tar.bz2
>>          lzip-1.8-1.tar.bz2
>>          setup.hint
>>
>> Example:<http://www.cadforte.com/cygwin-uploader/lzip/setup.hint>
>>
>> Homepage:<http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html>
>>
>> category: Archive
>> requires: cygwin libgcc1 libstdc++6
>> sdesc: "Lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm."
>> ldesc: "lossless data compressor based on the LZMA algorithm, with very
>>   safe integrity checking and a user interface similar to the one of
>>   gzip or bzip2."
>
> We already have xz.  Why do we need this?
>
> cgf
>

Hi,

lzip and xz are not exactly compatible.

I find that xz has somewhat better compression ratios but lzip has an 
archive recovery utility.