On Thursday 31 Jul 2003 11:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I understand where you are coming from, and at the moment I am fairly > > evenly split between considering zip vs bzip2. > > please try to stick to plain stupid zip if you have to. > not only because it's been around with the jre for some time, so we can > assume it's mostly bugfree, but mainly because i worry for 3rd party > freenet nodes.
It would not lead to 3rd party nodes at all. Because the compression is the matter of a client-side protocol, in order to extract the data from the network, all clients would have to support the (de)compression algorithm. Therefore either everybody uses it or nobody uses it. There is little scope for compromise inbetween because all compressed files will not work for the people who don't have the node with the codec. So, IMHO, it comes down to the choice between better compression, and the convenience of a built-in library. Gordan _______________________________________________ devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
