Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:42:48 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, mi@aldan.algebra.com Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <13818.981502968@winston.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Message from John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:14:39 PST." <XFMail.010206151439.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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I'd prefer to prevent a proliferation of compressors, thanks. Replacing one for another is one thing, adding another starts to raise the spectre of things like "vim" and "nvi" both in the tree at the same time. :-) - Jordan > > On 06-Feb-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > >> Bzip2 has a more liberal license and is a better (more efficient > >> usually) compressor. It is also being actively maintained. Some Linux > >> distros come with man-pages bzip2-ed instead of gzip-ed too. IMHO, we > >> should use it. > > > > Does bzip offer any backwards compatability with gzip, e.g. if we > > bundled bzip in /usr/bin instead of gzip, would a hardlink to bzip > > under the name "gzip" still DTRT with .gz files? > > We could always keep gzip in the base system if we added bzip2. > > > - Jordan > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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