Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:42:18 -0500 From: Donn Miller <dmmiller@cvzoom.net> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzip2 support for distribution patches) Message-ID: <3889EBFA.179F3866@cvzoom.net> References: <86ya9j61fy.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000121165416.NMLY2135.t-mta3.odn.ne.jp@athena.shige.org> <86vh4n5kae.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <20000122154518.HPCY19862.t-mta1.odn.ne.jp@athena.shige.org> <20000122123109.E59732@shadow.blackdawn.com>
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Will Andrews wrote: > Nope - looks like it could be a candidate for importing to the source > tree. However, I'm not sure everyone on current@ is going to agree, > since we already have something for compression (gzip) that is pretty > standard around the world. Ever notice how on some occasions bzip2 format is actually less effective than gzip? It depends on what you're compressing. For some things, gzip is better, and for yet other stuff, bzip2 gives much better compression. I think it would be neat to incorporate both gzip and and bzip2 into one executable, and have the compression program determine which algorithm is best. And then, when uncompressing, the program would autodetect which method (bzip2 or gzip) was used to compress the file. - Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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