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Re: [ITP] lzip-1.8-1
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 10:29:12 -0500
- Subject: Re: [ITP] lzip-1.8-1
- References: <4AF4F784.9050409@users.sourceforge.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
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