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wanted: xz and bzip2 compressors in Go

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#14 opened on Dec 9, 2014

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From @philips on December 2, 2014 0:0

Currently ACI's can be compressed with xz or bzip2 but actool build can only do gzip compression because Go libraries don't exist for xz or bzip2.

This feature would require implementing these specs in pure-go. Shelling out or linking to a C library won't fix this bug.

Copied from original issue: coreos/rocket#143

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Implement pure Go libraries for xz and bzip2 compression by studying the specifications and existing implementations.
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