Re: Bug#698256: ITP: lz4 -- Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library

[Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org> wrote:
> * Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@debian.org>, 2013-01-16, 09:51:
>
>> * URL             : http://code.google.com/p/lz4/
>> * License         : BSD 2-Clause License
>>  Programming Lang: C
>>  Description     : Extremely Fast Compression algorithm library
>>
>> LZ4 is a very fast lossless compression algorithm.
>> This uses Dictionary compression, and only supports compression and
>> decompression unit blocks.
>
>
> This looks very promising, but also immature. The upstream makefile doesn't
> build a shared library, not even a static library, but only an executable
> ("lz4demo"). Are there any plans to change that?
>
Yes, I am correcting the part which you pointed out.
And I will send the patch to upstream.
A static library, shared library and sample program are provided when
this is installed in Debian.

Best regards,
  Nobuhiro

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