[ nedit-Patches-2190027 ] LZMA

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Patches item #2190027, was opened at 2008-10-23 19:57
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Peter Kovář (peak)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: LZMA

Initial Comment:
This 1 line modification adds LZMA compression of the binary archive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lempel-Ziv-Markov_chain_algorithm

New GNU tar 1.20 has added option --lzma so this might become more popular in the future. Just take a look at the numbers. Winner is clear.

2191360 nedit-5.5-Linux-x86_64.tar
1143319 nedit-5.5-Linux-x86_64.tar.Z
  804228 nedit-5.5-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
  710264 nedit-5.5-Linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
  560327 nedit-5.5-Linux-x86_64.tar.lzma


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