Re: Implement lzma (xz?) compression (was Req #63880)

Good afternoon, there was an extension but seems not maintained ( https://github.com/payden/php-xz/blob/master/README.md). It should not be too hard to port to 7. best, Pierre On Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 5:48 PM Tobias Frei <tobias@freiwuppertal.de> wrote: > Hi, > > Today I was asked to contact this list about the 2013-01-01 proposal > described in Feature Request 63880. > > https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=63880 > > Please implement some kind of lzma compression, e.g. xz or lzip, > alongside gzip and bzip2 in php. > > The original proposal asked for xz compression; it seems that one may > argue in favor of a different implementation such as lzip for reasons > I found today at > https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html > > My request, although originally made for xz compression, is about > implementing lzma (or any kind of modern, strong) compression in php > to hopefully easily replace bzip2 in user applications, such as > phpBB's database backup function. > > Anyone may freely open an RFC or onwiki discussion about this on my > behalf whenever they like to, and even if they read this message > multiple years later. > > Best regards > Tobias Frei > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >