Index: TODO |
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--- TODO (revision 50504) |
+++ TODO (working copy) |
@@ -18,16 +18,21 @@ |
XZ Utils compress some files significantly worse than LZMA Utils. |
This is due to faster compression presets used by XZ Utils, and |
- can be worked around by using "xz --extreme". However, the presets |
- need some tweaking and maybe this issue can be minimized without |
- making the typical case too much slower. |
+ can often be worked around by using "xz --extreme". With some files |
+ --extreme isn't enough though: it's most likely with files that |
+ compress extremely well, so going from compression ratio of 0.003 |
+ to 0.004 means big relative increase in the compressed file size. |
xz doesn't quote unprintable characters when it displays file names |
given on the command line. |
tuklib_exit() doesn't block signals => EINTR is possible. |
+ SIGTSTP is not handled. If xz is stopped, the estimated remaining |
+ time and calculated (de)compression speed won't make sense in the |
+ progress indicator (xz --verbose). |
+ |
Missing features |
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@@ -41,11 +46,13 @@ |
Buffer-to-buffer coding could use less RAM (especially when |
decompressing LZMA1 or LZMA2). |
- I/O library is not implemented. It will possibly be named libzzf. |
+ I/O library is not implemented (similar to gzopen() in zlib). |
+ It will be a separate library that supports uncompressed, .gz, |
+ .bz2, .lzma, and .xz files. |
lzma_strerror() to convert lzma_ret to human readable form? |
This is tricky, because the same error codes are used with |
- slightly different meanings. |
+ slightly different meanings, and this cannot be fixed anymore. |
Documentation |