From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 6 15:43:22 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA7937B491; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:42:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f16NgmV13823; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:42:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com) To: John Baldwin Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Sheldon Hearn , obrien@FreeBSD.org, mi@aldan.algebra.com Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) In-Reply-To: Message from John Baldwin of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:14:39 PST." Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:42:48 -0800 Message-ID: <13818.981502968@winston.osd.bsdi.com> From: Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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