Would Obnam benefit from being able to use other compression tools, like bzip2, p7zip, and xz?
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