Re: support for lzip

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:

> Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> > Is lzip expected to be portable?  Did you receive the email (and patch) 
> > that I sent to you a day ago regarding a portability issue?
>
> Lzip is supposed to be portable to posix systems with GCC. It is easy to port 
> lzip to some non-posix systems like OS/2[1].
> [1] http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/h-search.php?key=lzip

That is good to hear.  Does it compile with many different C++ 
compilers (besides GCC)?  For example, does it compile under the 
Microsoft Visual Studio compiler for Windows?  I don't see Microsoft 
Windows in your list.

I see a huge disparity in source distribution size:

% du -sh lzip-1.6-pre3 bzip2-1.0.4 gzip-1.2.4a xz-4.999.8beta
247K    lzip-1.6-pre3
3.0M    bzip2-1.0.4
787K    gzip-1.2.4a
4.1M    xz-4.999.8beta

SLOCCount (by David A. Wheeler) results:
lzip-1.6-pre3:  3,373
bzip2-1.0.4:    6,088
gzip-1.2.4a:    6,302
xz-4.999.8beta: 29,825

Given this huge disparity in source code size, what features have been 
left out of lzip which may be of importance for Automake usage?

Bob
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