Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:28:44 -0300 From: Raphael Kubo da Costa <rakuco@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man bzip2 - suggest we add to See Also Message-ID: <8762l087lv.fsf@FreeBSD.org> References: <201109100809.p8A89AbU098767@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Resending the answer to hackers@ with my subscribed mail address. "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> 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.
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