Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:06:52 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, 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: <200102070106.f1716qt53369@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <13818.981502968@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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Jordan Hubbard wrote: > I'd prefer to prevent a proliferation of compressors, thanks. Heh, we already have compress and gzip, what's another one? :) > 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. :-) This is different. vim, nvi, etc are vi editors. gzip is gzip, bzip2 is bzip2. The difference between bzip2 and gzip is like the difference between vi and emacs. > - 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/ > > > Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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