[Zlib-devel] LZMA

[Paul Marquess]

From: 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. 

That sounds like a good plan.

> It would steal some ideas from Lasse's format.

"Plagiarism is the sincerest form of flattery" :-) 

Paul