[Zlib-devel] LZMA

[Mark Adler]

On Aug 7, 2007, at 7:21 AM, Paul Marquess wrote:
> On the proposal for adding LZMA2 into gzip I read a thread  
> somewhere on that
> topic. (I don't have the reference anymore) It argued that adding a  
> new
> compression format to the gzip would cause havoc.

Paul,

My current thinking is to develop a new gz2 format to incorporate  
deflate and LZMA2, to solve some issues with the gz format.  It would  
steal some ideas from Lasse's format.

Mark