[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #7534: Iostreams filter for LZMA2 (XZ)

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #7534: Iostreams filter for LZMA2 (XZ)
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-19 18:22:51

#7534: Iostreams filter for LZMA2 (XZ)
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 Reporter:  spixxi            |       Owner:  turkanis    
     Type:  Feature Requests  |      Status:  new         
Milestone:  To Be Determined  |   Component:  iostreams   
  Version:  Boost 1.52.0      |    Severity:  Optimization
 Keywords:                    |  
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 I propose a standard LZMA2 (XZ) filter implementation for the Iostreams
 library.

 LZMA2 provides much better compression than gz and bzip2. XZ is the
 default package format in Slackware GNU/Linux. 7-Zip, the most popular
 file compressor for Windows also uses LZMA2.

 The source code of liblzma is found [http://tukaani.org/xz/ here].

 A sample implementation of a Boost Iostream filter for lzma can be found
 in the
 [http://fusecompress.sourcearchive.com/documentation/2.6.git913897f4-1ubuntu1/files.html

 fusecompress source].

 I think it would be a big advantage because XZ is an upcoming file format
 which is used more and more in areas and by applications where saving
 bandwidth, memory or physical storage is important.

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