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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.
If the memor 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.
Missing features
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"xz --list"
xz could create sparse files when decompressing. (Some prototyping
has been done.)
xz doesn't support copying extended attributes, access control
lists etc. from source to target file.
Multithreaded compression
Multithreaded decompression
Buffer-to-buffer coding could use less RAM (especially when
decompressing LZMA1 or LZMA2).
I/O library is not implemented. It will possibly be named libzzf.
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.
Document the LZMA1 and LZMA2 algorithms.