megastep
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1 year ago Sure - this should be a trivial addition as we already support a bunch of other compression methods. I'm assuming this would be similar to the existing bzip2 support with just a different command name? Feel free to submit a PR for this if you'd like.
I would like to see support for creating bzip3 archives with makeself as i've noticed it tends to offer better compression ratios than the currently supported algorithms. The readme included in the respository linked above shows a few benchmarks against other popular algorithms. It's already been packaged for and included in the repositories for many popular linux distributions, so it hopefully wouldn't suffer from a lack of availability.