Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:55:28 -0500 (EST) From: mi@aldan.algebra.com To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, obrien@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) Message-ID: <200102070155.f171tTP58669@misha.privatelabs.com> In-Reply-To: <200102062313.f16NDus45358@iguana.aciri.org>
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On 6 Feb, Luigi Rizzo 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. = = my understanding is that bzip* is _way_ slower than gzip due to the = algorithm used. Unless we really care the 5-10% savings in size, i'd = rather _not_ use it, for portability and backward compatibility = reasons. My testing showed the opposite, actually. See: http://virtual-estates.net/bm/ = > 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? No. We will either need both, or have our own de-archiver, that will use either libbz2 or libz to DTRT. What is the need to replace rather than add? -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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