Consider migrating from snappy to cramjam

[ptribble]

The python-snappy module, as of 0.7.1, is now a shim for cramjam.

It might make sense to use cramjam directly; as a benefit, you get a number of other compression mechanisms for free, including zstd.

(One downside is that cramjam requires rust, and therefore isn't available on platforms that rust doesn't support, so the old method might be worth keeping as a fallback for users on those platforms.)

[martinmarques]

Hi, we've been looking into replacements for snappy for some time now. We haven't discarded any options, but haven't either taken any direction.
We'll keep this opened, given that it is something we are considering addressing