FK> Jonas Maebe wrote: >> On 24 mei 2006, at 17:30, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >> >>> Not really because it is simply a tar ball of several .tar.gz. Because >>> gzip is spread wider, we use this instead of bzip2/7zip. >> Isn't bzip2 available more or less everywhere nowadays? (at least where >> gzip is available, and in particular on Linux?) FK> At least on debian woody it wasn't installed by default. No idea about FK> sarge.
Just wondering: is RAR considered "spread wide"? I know that compressor is commercial, but uncompressor is not (sources are available, if I remember right), and it compresses sources better than gzip by 25% (often even more). There are better compressors, they are free (sometimes even open source), but support matters (dos, windows, pocket pc, linux, free bsd and macos x versions are ready to download). Or is it completely unacceptable because it isn't free? _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
