[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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