lzma someone?

[Oliver Falk]

On 08/25/2005 11:38 AM, Jindrich Novy wrote:
> Hello Oliver,
> 
> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 11:11 +0200, Oliver Falk wrote:
> 
>>I'm not even sure, if lzma is interessting enough for Fedora...
> 
> 
> I'm quite sure about this. It's very useful Lempel-Ziv based compression
> tool. It takes ages to compress anything with it (up to 40 times longer
> compression times than gzip), but the decompression is pretty fast,
> because the decompressor design is cache-friendly unlike bzip2, and
> other Burrows-Wheeler sorting based compressors, that reaches good
> compression ratios but both compression/decompression takes ages.
> 
> I think it's not a bad idea to include it.

Thanks for your comment! If nobody is going to manage it, I'll do, but 
let's see if there's someone more willing to do it, than I am.

Best,
  Oliver