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| 2 XZ Utils To-Do List | 2 XZ Utils To-Do List |
| 3 =================== | 3 =================== |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5 Known bugs | 5 Known bugs |
| 6 ---------- | 6 ---------- |
| 7 | 7 |
| 8 The test suite is too incomplete. | 8 The test suite is too incomplete. |
| 9 | 9 |
| 10 If the memory usage limit is less than about 13 MiB, xz is unable to | 10 If the memory usage limit is less than about 13 MiB, xz is unable to |
| 11 automatically scale down the compression settings enough even though | 11 automatically scale down the compression settings enough even though |
| 12 it would be possible by switching from BT2/BT3/BT4 match finder to | 12 it would be possible by switching from BT2/BT3/BT4 match finder to |
| 13 HC3/HC4. | 13 HC3/HC4. |
| 14 | 14 |
| 15 The code to detect number of CPU cores doesn't count hyperthreading | 15 The code to detect number of CPU cores doesn't count hyperthreading |
| 16 as multiple cores. In context of xz, it probably should. | 16 as multiple cores. In context of xz, it probably should. |
| 17 Hyperthreading is good at least with p7zip. | 17 Hyperthreading is good at least with p7zip. |
| 18 | 18 |
| 19 XZ Utils compress some files significantly worse than LZMA Utils. | 19 XZ Utils compress some files significantly worse than LZMA Utils. |
| 20 This is due to faster compression presets used by XZ Utils, and | 20 This is due to faster compression presets used by XZ Utils, and |
| 21 can be worked around by using "xz --extreme". However, the presets | 21 can often be worked around by using "xz --extreme". With some files |
| 22 need some tweaking and maybe this issue can be minimized without | 22 --extreme isn't enough though: it's most likely with files that |
| 23 making the typical case too much slower. | 23 compress extremely well, so going from compression ratio of 0.003 |
| 24 to 0.004 means big relative increase in the compressed file size. |
| 24 | 25 |
| 25 xz doesn't quote unprintable characters when it displays file names | 26 xz doesn't quote unprintable characters when it displays file names |
| 26 given on the command line. | 27 given on the command line. |
| 27 | 28 |
| 28 tuklib_exit() doesn't block signals => EINTR is possible. | 29 tuklib_exit() doesn't block signals => EINTR is possible. |
| 29 | 30 |
| 31 SIGTSTP is not handled. If xz is stopped, the estimated remaining |
| 32 time and calculated (de)compression speed won't make sense in the |
| 33 progress indicator (xz --verbose). |
| 34 |
| 30 | 35 |
| 31 Missing features | 36 Missing features |
| 32 ---------------- | 37 ---------------- |
| 33 | 38 |
| 34 xz doesn't support copying extended attributes, access control | 39 xz doesn't support copying extended attributes, access control |
| 35 lists etc. from source to target file. | 40 lists etc. from source to target file. |
| 36 | 41 |
| 37 Multithreaded compression | 42 Multithreaded compression |
| 38 | 43 |
| 39 Multithreaded decompression | 44 Multithreaded decompression |
| 40 | 45 |
| 41 Buffer-to-buffer coding could use less RAM (especially when | 46 Buffer-to-buffer coding could use less RAM (especially when |
| 42 decompressing LZMA1 or LZMA2). | 47 decompressing LZMA1 or LZMA2). |
| 43 | 48 |
| 44 I/O library is not implemented. It will possibly be named libzzf. | 49 I/O library is not implemented (similar to gzopen() in zlib). |
| 50 It will be a separate library that supports uncompressed, .gz, |
| 51 .bz2, .lzma, and .xz files. |
| 45 | 52 |
| 46 lzma_strerror() to convert lzma_ret to human readable form? | 53 lzma_strerror() to convert lzma_ret to human readable form? |
| 47 This is tricky, because the same error codes are used with | 54 This is tricky, because the same error codes are used with |
| 48 slightly different meanings. | 55 slightly different meanings, and this cannot be fixed anymore. |
| 49 | 56 |
| 50 | 57 |
| 51 Documentation | 58 Documentation |
| 52 ------------- | 59 ------------- |
| 53 | 60 |
| 54 Some tutorial is needed for liblzma. I have planned to write some | 61 Some tutorial is needed for liblzma. I have planned to write some |
| 55 extremely well commented example programs, which would work as | 62 extremely well commented example programs, which would work as |
| 56 a tutorial. I suppose the Doxygen tags are quite OK as a quick | 63 a tutorial. I suppose the Doxygen tags are quite OK as a quick |
| 57 reference once one is familiar with the liblzma API. | 64 reference once one is familiar with the liblzma API. |
| 58 | 65 |
| 59 Document the LZMA1 and LZMA2 algorithms. | 66 Document the LZMA1 and LZMA2 algorithms. |
| 60 | 67 |
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