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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:45:57 +0200
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To: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
Cc: Tobias Frei <tobias@freiwuppertal.de>, PHP internals <internals@lists.php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Implement lzma (xz?) compression (was Req #63880)
From: krakjoe@gmail.com (Joe Watkins)

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Note, while reading the code I noticed it doing some odd things with
strings (see casting away constness in patch) ... this wants a maintainer,
I was just getting the build going [and not volunteering] ...

Cheers
Joe

PS. Sorry about double post ...

On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 15:42, Joe Watkins <krakjoe@gmail.com> wrote:

> Afternoon,
>
> Patch for php7:
> https://gist.github.com/krakjoe/549ec38161ecd1ad9b8f16f6cf18657e
>
> Run with it, or not ...
>
> Cheers
> Joe
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 14:43, Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> On 19.08.2019 at 12:47, Tobias Frei wrote:
>>
>> > 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 My request, although originally made for xz compression, is about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.
>>
>> Thanks for bringing this topic to internals@!
>>
>> In my opinion, this extension should start as PECL extension.  This
>> would allow it to be developed independently of the PHP release cycle,
>> and the API could be adapted if necessary.  After the extension has been
>> stabilized, and if the extension turns out to be generally useful, it
>> still could be bundled.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Christoph
>>
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