ribzip2 - a comprehensible bzip2 implementation

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)

Usage

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.

Design Goals

Goals

• "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

Long-Term-Goals

• ergonomic library crate
• drop-in replacement for the bzip2 crate
• drop-in replacement for C libbzip2
• drop-in replacement for the C bzip2/bunzip2 binary

Publishing

We use the crate cargo-workspaces for publishing releases manually. Currently, there is no automation in place.

Contribute!

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.