[Zlib-devel] bzip2 support in gzip?

[Paul Marquess]

From: zlib-devel-bounces at madler.net [mailto:zlib-devel-bounces at madler.net]
 
> On Jul 18, 2006, at 4:15 AM, Paul Marquess wrote:
> > Given that the gzip code is going to be opened up, is adding bzip2
> > support
> > something to consider?
> 
> We can consider it, though I had not planned to do that.  bzip2 is
> already widely available, and so I can see little reason to add it to
> gzip.

It could be an alternative for folk who want higher compression than
deflate, but have a problem with the lzma license. That's assuming the
issues with the existing lzma licence aren't sorted out. I'm optimistic that
they can.

Paul