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XZ Utils To-Do List
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Known bugs
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The test suite is too incomplete.
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If the memory usage limit is less than about 13 MiB, xz is unable to
automatically scale down the compression settings enough even though
it would be possible by switching from BT2/BT3/BT4 match finder to
HC3/HC4.
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XZ Utils compress some files significantly worse than LZMA Utils.
This is due to faster compression presets used by XZ Utils, and
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can often be worked around by using "xz --extreme". With some files
--extreme isn't enough though: it's most likely with files that
compress extremely well, so going from compression ratio of 0.003
to 0.004 means big relative increase in the compressed file size.
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xz doesn't quote unprintable characters when it displays file names
given on the command line.
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tuklib_exit() doesn't block signals => EINTR is possible.
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SIGTSTP is not handled. If xz is stopped, the estimated remaining
time and calculated (de)compression speed won't make sense in the
progress indicator (xz --verbose).
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Missing features
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xz doesn't support copying extended attributes, access control
lists etc. from source to target file.
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Multithreaded compression
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Multithreaded decompression
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Buffer-to-buffer coding could use less RAM (especially when
decompressing LZMA1 or LZMA2).
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I/O library is not implemented (similar to gzopen() in zlib).
It will be a separate library that supports uncompressed, .gz,
.bz2, .lzma, and .xz files.
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lzma_strerror() to convert lzma_ret to human readable form?
This is tricky, because the same error codes are used with
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slightly different meanings, and this cannot be fixed anymore.
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Documentation
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Some tutorial is needed for liblzma. I have planned to write some
extremely well commented example programs, which would work as
a tutorial. I suppose the Doxygen tags are quite OK as a quick
reference once one is familiar with the liblzma API.
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Document the LZMA1 and LZMA2 algorithms.
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