[tex-live] No lzma source in repo (Cygwin)
Angelo Graziosi
angelo.graziosi at alice.it
Mon Mar 16 11:24:11 CET 2009
Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Di, 10 Mär 2009, Angelo Graziosi wrote:
>> (Ehmm... What is 'xz'? ...and when will TeXLive 'adopt' Cygwin?)
>
> xz is the successor of lzma, from the same author
> http://tukaani.org/xz/
> TL2009 will use xz instead of lzma.
>
> Apropos Cygwin: If we get binaries or some explanation what specialities
> we have to do we can adopt it quite easily.
For the sake of completeness, now Cygwin has the 'xz' package [1] and
'lzma' is simply a link to xz.exe.
Cheers,
Angelo.
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[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-03/msg00533.html
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