From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 6 17:56: 0 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from privatecube.privatelabs.com (unknown [63.114.185.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1358F37B491; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:55:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from misha.privatelabs.com (root@misha.plten [10.0.0.106]) by privatecube.privatelabs.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA01816; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:55:56 -0500 Received: from virtual-estates.net (mi@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by misha.privatelabs.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f171tTP58669; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:55:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi@virtual-estates.net) Message-Id: <200102070155.f171tTP58669@misha.privatelabs.com> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 20:55:28 -0500 (EST) From: mi@aldan.algebra.com Subject: Re: bzip2 (was cvs commit: ...) To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: Jordan Hubbard , obrien@FreeBSD.org, sheldonh@uunet.co.za, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <200102062313.f16NDus45358@iguana.aciri.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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