[freijon]

Closes #398
Signed-off-by: Jonas Frei freijon@pm.me

This PR adds support for the bzip3 format. I tested it to the best of my knowledge and it seemed to work fine. Unlike the other formats, one can not modify the compression level directly. Bzip3 works with block sizes which can be varied. I chose a block size of 5MB which yielded good results with most examples I tested.

⚠️ Things to consider before merging

• The project is quite young (May 2022)
• While their name is bzip3, they have no affiliation with the original bz/bz2 and I don't know if they have the permission of the original author of bz/bz2 to use this name. Nevertheless, a lot of popular Linux distros added the library to their repository.
• The Rust crate bzip3-rs uses the unstable try block and may cause complications at build time

P.S. I'm a Rust noob and did this primarily as a proof of concept. Let me know what you think about this.

[marcospb19]

Good job!

I have a branch with this implemented as an experiment, sort of, look at main...bzip3, our code looks very similar.

I've been busy so I'm really glad to have your help.

Previous Context

I encountered two blockers:

1. Licensing doubts addressed in Adding support for bzip3 in Ouch bczhc/bzip3-rs#1.
2. Ouch tests failing, hopefully 🤞 solved after this PR Add test to check if chained encoders finishes bczhc/bzip3-rs#4, as the maintainer quickly followed up with a fix.

New Context

The Rust crate bzip3-rs uses the unstable try block and may cause complications at build time

Seems like you just found a new blocker:

3. Our releases are built in stable Rust, I might have to kindly ask bzip3-rs's maintainer to remove the try_blocks used in the build script. (PRs open: Make the build script run in stable Rust - use closure bczhc/bzip3-rs#6 or Make the build script run in stable Rust - use option methods bczhc/bzip3-rs#7).

To temporarly ignore this blocker (while we wait for a bzip3-rs fix release), make the following change in Cargo.toml in order to make CI pass:

- bzip3 = "0.8.1"
+ bzip3 = { git = "https://github.com/marcospb19/bzip3-rs", branch = "make-build-script-run-in-stable-1" }

That's my branch with the fix.

[marcospb19]

Your code looks better than mine!

It's just missing the test code (it's basically one line)

And another requested change,

[marcospb19]

Now the CI is failing to build bzip3-rs because it doesn't have bzip3 installed.

I don't know how to solve this for Ubuntu, MacOS and Windows, do we need to clone the repo and build it from scratch? 😭

Perhaps installing nix as a step and using our nix-shell? cc @figsoda again.

[figsoda]

Not sure what's the best way to do it on windows, It's available for brew so macos should be easy to take care of, it is only available on ubuntu 23.04+ so we might have to use brew for linux as well

[marcospb19]

I force-pushed a rebase to solve conflicts, and temporarily disabled some CI targets so that we can focus on the code problem for now.

[marcospb19]

Almost done, there is just one last problem:

[marcospb19]

Yaay!

Thanks to @ttys3 the CI problem was solved in 9ff7309 and that unblocked me to finish this PR.

Congrats everyone for the collective effort :) .