From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 10 20:35:09 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 327FD106566B for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:35:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-hackers@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E38EC8FC0A for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R2UGY-0005TR-2A for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:35:06 +0200 Received: from 187.101.120.126 ([187.101.120.126]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:35:06 +0200 Received: from rakuco by 187.101.120.126 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:35:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Raphael Kubo da Costa Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:28:44 -0300 Lines: 30 Message-ID: <8762l087lv.fsf@FreeBSD.org> References: <201109100809.p8A89AbU098767@fire.js.berklix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 187.101.120.126 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4eVS6RxQmwxBr47pKkOQwSK9ex8= Subject: Re: man bzip2 - suggest we add to See Also X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 20:35:09 -0000 Resending the answer to hackers@ with my subscribed mail address. "Julian H. Stacey" writes: > I suggest we should add a See Also section to man bzip2, > > FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE & current man bzip2 > .../-current/src/contrib/bzip2/bzip2.1 > > adding URLs > http://www.7-zip.org/download.html -> > http://www.freshports.org/archivers/p7zip/ > > as currently no reference is made to 7zip or 7-zip > > Quote from: http://www.minix3.org/download/ > The best known lossless compression algorithm is implemented > in the bzip2 program. It also has extremely fast decompression. > The popular 7zip archiver for Windows supports it too. Speaking with my p7zip maintainer hat on, I don't have anything to add to the proposal (any kind of change wouldn't involve that port anyway). As a user, though, I don't really see this being really necessary (dunno if there's some documentation policy with regards to recommending ports software in a base man page). 7zip itself is a Windows program, p7zip is done by a guy who looks at the 7zip code after it's released and tunes it to run on Unix. In the end, it's Julian's call IMO.