Please support compressed Images

[Michael Gebetsroither]

Hi!

Thx for this great tool!

As an additional feature it would be really nice to support compressed images in the tool directly.
Usually images are not full and thus a 8GB images gets down to 1GB even with the simplest compression.

e.g:
foo.img.gz and automatically decompress it on write to stick.

Some other formats for future releases may also include (though even *.gz alone would be fine!)
foo.img.bz2
foo.img.xz (for lzma)

ps.: sorry for filing a bug for this. i didn't find any "feature suggestion" button anywhere here on the page.

thx!
Michael Gebetsroither

[Tobin Davis (gruemaster)]

Adding to wishlist. While this app was originally written for the Jaunty netbook release, it appears to have grown in popularity for a lot of other projects. Hopefully someone can spare some time to add these features in the near future.

[Tobin Davis (gruemaster)]

I am going to target this for our first major release, 1.0. I hope to get this out by May 2013.

Keep an eye on our sourceforge site for news and announcements.

[Tobin Davis (gruemaster)]

Still targeting towards 1.0 release. No eta, other than this year.

[Adrian Bunk (bunk)]

Tobin, is there any new ETA for a version with support for compressed images?

Thanks

[Tobin Davis (gruemaster)]

Sorry, life seems to keep getting in the way of development time. On that note, I have a merge request from David Luca on SourceForge that appears to have enabled this, to some extent. I need to review it, but it looks promising.

I have updated the blog on the SourceForge project site with some details on what I'm up to. And thanks for your continued patience.