Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Miguel Landaeta <miguel@miguel.cc>

* Package name : xz-java
Version : 1.0
Upstream Author : Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
* URL : http://tukaani.org/xz/java.html
* License : public-domain
Programming Lang: Java
Description : Java library with a complete implementation of XZ data compression

XZ for Java aims to be a complete implementation of XZ data compression
in pure Java. Single-threaded streamed compression and decompression
and random access decompression have been fully implemented.

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On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 06:10:30PM -0430, Miguel Landaeta wrote:
> * Package name : xz-java
> Description : Java library with a complete implementation of XZ data compression
>
> XZ for Java aims to be a complete implementation of XZ data compression
> in pure Java.

Do you happen to have such a pure implementation in a language likely to
be present on minimal ancient systems? I'm afraid the only remotely sane
one found there is Perl (and as mirabilos said in a private conversation,
some BSDs lack even that).

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On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
> Do you happen to have such a pure implementation in a language likely to
> be present on minimal ancient systems? *I'm afraid the only remotely sane
> one found there is Perl (and as mirabilos said in a private conversation,
> some BSDs lack even that).

There is a decompressor designed for embedded systems:

http://tukaani.org/xz/embedded.html

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