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authorLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2009-01-30 18:50:16 +0200
committerLasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>2009-01-30 18:50:16 +0200
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XZ Utils
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-
-Warning
-
- This is a beta version. Don't trust the files produced by
- this version of the software - not even if the software can
- uncompress the files properly! This is because the file format
- isn't officially frozen yet although changes are very unlikely.
-
- So please test a lot, but don't use for anything serious yet.
+========
+
+Important
+
+ This is a beta version. The .xz file format is now stable though,
+ which means that files created with the beta version will be
+ uncompressible with all future XZ Utils versions too (assuming
+ that there are no catastrophical bugs).
+
+ liblzma API is pretty stable now, although minor tweaks may still
+ be done if really needed. The ABI is not stable yet. The major
+ soname will be bumped right before the first stable release.
+ Probably it will be bumped to something like .so.5.0.0 because
+ some distributions using the alpha versions already had to use
+ other versions than .so.0.0.0.
+
+ Excluding the Doxygen style docs in libilzma API headers, the
+ documentation in this package (including the rest of this
+ README) is not very up to date, and may contain incorrect or
+ misleading information.
Overview