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Subject: Implement lzma (xz?) compression (was Req #63880)
From: tobias@freiwuppertal.de (Tobias Frei)

Hi,

Today I was asked to contact this list about the 2013-01-01 proposal  
described in Feature Request 63880.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63880

Please implement some kind of lzma compression, e.g. xz or lzip,  
alongside gzip and bzip2 in php.

The original proposal asked for xz compression; it seems that one may  
argue in favor of a different implementation such as lzip for reasons  
I found today at
https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html

My request, although originally made for xz compression, is about  
implementing lzma (or any kind of modern, strong) compression in php  
to hopefully easily replace bzip2 in user applications, such as  
phpBB's database backup function.

Anyone may freely open an RFC or onwiki discussion about this on my  
behalf whenever they like to, and even if they read this message  
multiple years later.

Best regards
Tobias Frei