Please document (POD, README, etc.) that IO::Compress also supports xz and lzma compression

[xtaran]

Besides the historic gzip, xz in the meanwhile seems the most often used compression method in the Linux. It definitely has superseeded bzip2 and I've never seen lzop really gaining a relevant market share.

Yet xz seems not yet supported by IO::Compress, especially not by IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress whose name is a bit exaggerated given that it doesn't support the second most used compression.

[xtaran]

Just noticed that https://metacpan.org/release/IO-Compress-Lzma is also authored by you — which makes missing xz support even more unexpected. :-)

[xtaran]

Ok, the Debian package libio-compress-perl recommends libio-compress-lzma-perl which implies for me that there is actually support despite the readme and POD only mention gzip, bzip2 and lzop. So this seems primarily a documentation issue. Good! :-)

[pmqs]

Hey @xtaran

In the POD for IO::Uncompress::AnyUncompress it mentions both xz and lzma. Can you point me at part of the documentation are you looking at so I can review & update if needed please?

DESCRIPTION
This module provides a Perl interface that allows the reading of files/buffers that have been compressed with a variety of compression libraries.

The formats supported are:

• RFC 1950
• RFC 1951 (optionally)
• gzip (RFC 1952)
• zip
• bzip2
• lzop
• lzf
• lzma
• lzip
• xz

[xtaran]

Sure:

https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress/blob/master/README#L18-L19
https://github.com/pmqs/IO-Compress/blob/master/lib/IO/Uncompress/AnyUncompress.pm#L273

There may be more, but these are the places I read first and which made me believe that there is no xz support.

[pmqs]

Thanks. I agree, those places need updated.

[pmqs]

Fixed in 126f7b9

[xtaran]

Thanks!