node-liblzma 1.0.4-8 → 1.1.4

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+# 1.0.5
+* Added CI for OSX and Windows
+* Implemented use of node-pre-gyp instead of node-gyp
+* Better build script, bug fixing.
+
 # 1.0.3
 * Updated to latest versions of dependencies
 * NodeJS 6.x is now supported

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+Node-liblzma
+==========
+
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+
+# What is liblzma/XZ ?
+
+[XZ](http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-file-format.txt) is a container for compressed archives. It is among the best compressors out there according to several benchmarks:
+* [Gzip vs Bzip2 vs LZMA vs XZ vs LZ4 vs LZO](http://pokecraft.first-world.info/wiki/Quick_Benchmark:_Gzip_vs_Bzip2_vs_LZMA_vs_XZ_vs_LZ4_vs_LZO)
+* [Large Text Compression Benchmark](http://mattmahoney.net/dc/text.html#2118)
+* [Linux Compression Comparison (GZIP vs BZIP2 vs LZMA vs ZIP vs Compress)](http://bashitout.com/2009/08/30/Linux-Compression-Comparison-GZIP-vs-BZIP2-vs-LZMA-vs-ZIP-vs-Compress.html)
+
+It has a good balance between compression time/ratio and decompression time/memory.
+
+# About this project
+
+This project aims towards providing:
+* A quick and easy way to play with XZ compression:
+Quick and easy as it conforms to zlib API, so that switching from __zlib/deflate__ to __xz__ might be as easy as a string search/replace in your code editor :smile:
+
+* Complete integration with XZ sources/binaries:
+You can either use system packages or download a specific version and compile it!
+See [installation](#installation) below.
+
+> Only LZMA2 is supported for compression output.
+But the library can open and read any LZMA1 or LZMA2 compressed file. And possibly others...
+
+# What's new ?
+
+Supports all NodeJS versions, thanks to [nan](https://github.com/nodejs/nan) !
+It has been tested and works on:
+- Linux x64 (Ubuntu)
+- OSX (tested with Travis)
+- Raspberry Pi 2 (armv7l 32-bits)
+- Raspberry Pi 3 (armv8l but still a 32 bits Raspbian)
+- Windows (ongoing tests)
+
+# Related projects
+
+Thanks to the community, there are several choices out there:
+* [lzma-purejs](https://github.com/cscott/lzma-purejs)
+A pure JavaScript implementation of the algorithm
+* [node-xz](https://github.com/robey/node-xz)
+Node binding of XZ library
+* [lzma-native](https://github.com/addaleax/lzma-native)
+A very complete implementation of XZ library bindings
+* Others are also available but they fork "xz" process in the background.
+
+# API comparison
+
+```js
+var lzma = require('lzma');
+```
+
+Zlib            | XZlib                   | Arguments
+----------------|-------------------------|---------------
+createGzip      | createXz                | ([lzma_options, [options]])
+createGunzip    | createUnxz              | ([lzma_options, [options]])
+gzip            | xz                      | (buf, [options], callback)
+gunzip          | unxz                    | (buf, [options], callback)
+gzipSync        | xzSync                  | (buf, [options])
+gunzipSync      | unxzSync                | (buf, [options])
+
+## Constants
+
+`options` is an `Object` with the following possible attributes:
+
+Attribute            | Type     | Available options
+---------------------|----------|------------
+check                | Uint32   | NONE
+ | |CRC32
+ | |CRC64
+ | |SHA256
+preset | Uint32 | DEFAULT
+ | |EXTREME
+flag | Uint32 | TELL_NO_CHECK
+ | |TELL_UNSUPPORTED_CHECK
+ | |TELL_ANY_CHECK
+ | |CONCATENATED
+mode | Uint32 | FAST
+ | |NORMAL
+filters | Array | LZMA2 (added by default)
+ | |X86
+ | |POWERPC
+ | |IA64
+ | |ARM
+ | |ARMTHUMB
+ | |SPARC
+
+For further information about each of these flags, you will find reference at [XZ SDK](http://7-zip.org/sdk.html).
+
+# Installation
+
+Well, as simple as this one-liner:
+
+```sh
+$ npm i node-liblzma --save
+```
+
+If you want to enable threading support in the module, then opt in with:
+
+``` bash
+$ ENABLE_MT=1 npm install node-liblzma --save
+```
+
+> This will of course work only if you have a binary version of liblzma with threading enabled.
+If this is not the case, it will not fail (even at runtime). It justs won't work.
+To check if this is enabled or not, run the [tests suite](#tests)
+
+In both cases, it will try to download an existing pre-compiled module binary and if none exists it will build it.
+
+To build the module, you have the following options:
+1. Using system development libraries
+2. Automatic download and compilation of `xz` libs, and statically link against node module
+3. Compile `xz` yourself, outside `node-liblzma` and build node module with dynamically linked library
+
+## Using system dev libraries to compile
+
+You need to have the development package installed on your system. If you have Debian based distro:
+
+```
+# apt-get install liblzma-dev
+```
+
+## Automatic download and compilation to statically link `xz`
+
+If you do not plan on having a local install, you can ask for automatic download and build of whatever version of `xz` you want.
+With the use of [UBS](https://github.com/oorabona/ubs), you do not need to download/configure/install `xz` yourself anymore.
+
+Just do:
+
+```sh
+$ COMPILE=1 npm install --save node-liblzma
+```
+
+When no option is given in the commandline arguments, it will build with default values.
+
+If you want to build __experimental__ multi-threading feature, you can build `xz` with threads enabled just for this library by running:
+
+```sh
+$ ENABLE_MT=1 COMPILE=1 npm install --save node-liblzma
+```
+
+## Local install of `xz` sources (outside `node-liblzma`)
+
+So you did install `xz` somewhere outside the module and want the module to use it.
+
+For that, you need to set the include directory and library directory search paths as GCC [environment variables](https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Environment-Variables.html).
+
+```sh
+$ export CPATH=$HOME/path/to/headers
+$ export LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/path/to/lib
+$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/path/to/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+```
+
+The latest is needed for tests to be run right after.
+
+Once done, this should suffice:
+
+```sh
+$ npm install
+```
+
+# Tests
+
+You can run tests with:
+
+```sh
+$ npm test
+```
+
+It will build and launch tests suite with [Mocha](https://github.com/visionmedia/mocha).
+
+# Usage
+
+As the API is very close to NodeJS Zlib, you will probably find a good reference
+[there](http://www.nodejs.org/api/zlib.html).
+
+Otherwise examples can be found as part of the test suite, so feel free to use them!
+They are written in [CoffeeScript](http://www.coffeescript.org).
+
+# Bugs
+
+If you find one, feel free to contribute and post a new issue!
+PR are accepted as well :)
+
+Kudos goes to [addaleax](https://github.com/addaleax) for helping me out with C++ stuff !
+
+If you compile with threads, you may see a bunch of warnings about `-Wmissing-field-initializers`.
+This is _normal_ and does not prevent threading from being active and working.
+I did not yet figure how to fix this except by masking the warning..
+
+# License
+
+This software is released under LGPL3.0+