Re: Automake 1.11.2 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Bob, and thanks.

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> The approach that lzip used satisifies the standard GNU-mandated 
> configuration requirements.  Due to using only standard C++, it only 
> needs to configure aspects such as the compiler used and installation 
> prefix. This approach leads to a very small source package similar to 
> that of gzip and bzip2.  The drawback of using standard C++ is that C++ 
> has only been standardized since 1998 and a C++-runtime library is 
> required in order for lzip to be used.  This means that lzip might not 
> be available in every possible circumstance (but there is always the 
> gzip fallback).

For those "possible circumstances" there is clzip[1], a C89 versión of 
lzip. And for even more stripped down systems there is lunzip[2], a 
small C89 decompressor.

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/clzip.html
[2] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lunzip.html


BTW Stefano, what do you think about supporting parallel versions of the 
compressors, like lbzip2[3] or plzip[4]?

[3] http://freecode.com/projects/lbzip2
[4] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/plzip.html


Best regards,
Antonio.