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Re: ITP: mingw-xz (1.7 only)


On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 03:19:39AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>A few months back, I added support for .lzma packages to setup-1.7.exe.
> I did this by directly imported a few files from the LZMA SDK, and
>writing an interface class.

You've said what you want to do but you haven't said *why*.  What is the
advantage of further complicating a complicated program by adding .xz
support, espcially given the lack of adoption of the lzma format?

cgf


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