ribzip2 is command line utility providing bzip2 compression and decompression written in pure Rust. It is currently
considered work-in-progress and lacks many features of the original implementation including
- it has worse compression rate
- it is slower (at least factor 2)
Beware that ribzip2 is WIP. If you absolutely want to, install ribzip2 using cargo install ribzip2.
You can use ribzip2 compress <FILENAME> to compress a file and ribzip2 decompress <FILENAME>.
The latter will output from file.bz2 to file.out. For further information use the help subcommand
and the respective help options of compress and decompress, e.g. ribzip2 compress --help.
- "enterprise style" comprehensible code equipped with tests explaining the involved algorithmns
- pure rust
- safe code
- state-of-the-art algorithms with optimal asymptotic performance
- efficient multithreading
- ergonomic cli
- ergonomic library crate
- drop-in replacement for the bzip2 crate
- drop-in replacement for C libzip2
- drop-in replacement for the C bzip2/bunzip2 binary
We use the crate cargo-workspaces for publishing releases manually. Currently, there is no automation in place.
Contributions are very welcome (issues, pull-requests, and comments). Find your issue under "issues". The code here (exlcuding samples using for compression tests) is published under the MIT license.