From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 6 17: 7:14 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6246837B401; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:06:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1716qt53369; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:06:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102070106.f1716qt53369@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: John Baldwin , 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: <13818.981502968@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:06:52 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- 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