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[[!tag obnam-wishlist]]
Would Obnam benefit from being able to use other compression tools, like bzip2, p7zip, and xz?
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It would! However, implementing this is slightly tricky until I make Obnam can run external tools
in the background, rather than waiting for them to finish. The compression it uses right now is
done with the Python standard library `gzip` module, so it doesn't require executing an
external program, so the issue doesn't rise. However, we need the backgrounding feature
anyway, since encryption uses an external tool, and so there's a big performance impact
from using encryption. After backgrounding works, adding arbitrary compression filters will
be easy. --liw
[[done]] this is an ancient wishlist bug, and keeping it open isn't helping it happen,
but it is making it harder to use the bug list. --liw
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