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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 18:40:24 +0700
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To: Tobias Frei <tobias@freiwuppertal.de>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Implement lzma (xz?) compression (was Req #63880)
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

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Good afternoon,


there was an extension but seems not maintained (
https://github.com/payden/php-xz/blob/master/README.md). It should not be
too hard to port to 7.

best,
Pierre

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 5:48 PM Tobias Frei <tobias@freiwuppertal.de> wrote:

> 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 My request, although originally made for xz compression, is about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
>
>
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