Re: LZMA inclusion

[Gregers Petersen <glp@openwrt.org>]

Tim Bird wrote:
> Gregers Petersen wrote:
>> There was a small talk a few days ago involving a few of the OpenWrt
>> developers and David Woodhouse. One of the topics discussed, was a
>> question about the potential of including LZMA in the kernel.
>> Such an inclusion would be quite benefitial in terms of embedded
>> systems, but the major hurdle seems to be the code quality of LZMA itself.
>> This leads to the question I would like to raise; are there ongoing
>> plans (or considerations) to rewrite and merge LZMA, and has anyone
>> started working on it in practical terms?
> 
> Did anyone answer this?  CELF is currently considering funding
> a project to do this (add LZMA support to the kernel), and
> it would be good to get a feel for the current status...
>  -- Tim
> 

I actually had one direct reply, in relationship to this project:

http://tukaani.org/

The tukaani work seems to be quite work-in-progress/alpha, but there is
progress. If such a project is to be funded it would probably be a good
idea to several partners involved (also due to the fact that it would
benifit the community as a whole).

Chz


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Gregers Petersen
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