bzlib: Compression and decompression in the bzip2 format
This package provides a pure interface for compressing and
decompressing streams of data represented as lazy
ByteStrings. It uses the bz2 C library so it has high
performance.
It provides a convenient high level API suitable for most tasks and for the few cases where more control is needed it provides access to the full bzip2 feature set.
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| Versions [RSS] | 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.4.0.1, 0.4.0.3, 0.5.0.0, 0.5.0.1, 0.5.0.2, 0.5.0.3, 0.5.0.4, 0.5.0.5, 0.5.1.0, 0.5.2.0, 0.5.3.0 |
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| Change log | CHANGELOG.md |
| Dependencies | base (>=4.9 && <5), bytestring (>=0.9 && <0.13), bzip2-clib (<1.1) [details] |
| Tested with | ghc ==9.14.1, ghc ==9.12.2, ghc ==9.10.3, ghc ==9.8.4, ghc ==9.6.7, ghc ==9.4.8, ghc ==9.2.8, ghc ==9.0.2, ghc ==8.10.7, ghc ==8.8.4, ghc ==8.6.5, ghc ==8.4.4, ghc ==8.2.2, ghc ==8.0.2 |
| License | BSD-3-Clause |
| Copyright | (c) 2006-2015 Duncan Coutts |
| Author | Duncan Coutts <duncan@community.haskell.org> |
| Maintainer | Duncan Coutts <duncan@community.haskell.org> |
| Uploaded | by Bodigrim at 2026-07-10T00:04:30Z |
| Category | Codec |
| Bug tracker | https://github.com/haskell/bzlib/issues |
| Source repo | head: git clone https://github.com/haskell/bzlib.git |
| Distributions | Arch:0.5.2.0, LTSHaskell:0.5.2.0, Stackage:0.5.3.0 |
| Reverse Dependencies | 19 direct, 12 indirect [details] |
| Downloads | 25853 total (36 in the last 30 days) |
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| Status | Docs available [build log] Last success reported on 2026-07-10 [all 1 reports] |
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Compression and decompression in the bzip2 format
This package provides a pure interface for compressing and decompressing streams of data represented as lazy ByteStrings. It uses the bz2 C library so it has high performance.
It provides a convenient high level API suitable for most tasks and for the few cases where more control is needed it provides access to the full bzip2 feature set.