Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:23:42 -0500 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: Alex RAY <ray@ddteam.net>, kientzle@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: GEOM_ULZMA Message-ID: <d873d5be1002202023w4dfcc8d9o56ec4fe53066f8ca@mail.gmail.com>
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>> The code organization depends on what you want to do with it and how you >> want to update the code in the future, if your lzma library is third party. > >LZMA made by Igor Pavlov, and since 4.62 it licensed under Public Domain. >So we can use it, if we need. > >> >> If you never intend to update the lzma code then I guess it's fine to >> embed it in a big .c file. For a port, it doesn't matter much since it >> is your own thing. There are stricter rules on maintainability and style >> if you want it in the base system. > >So, I think right place for lzma library under sys/contrib directory, if I "promise" >maintain it? There are already long-standing plans to import lzma compression libraries into the base system, by the libarchive maintainers. So you will probably have to coordinate with them. They have hooks in the current libarchive sources for native lzma compression, but they reportedly have been waiting for related file formats and compression methods to stabilize before enabling them by default. Pavlov has been making significant changes from release to release, so this may not be the easiest code to maintain.
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