Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Addbzi

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:42:45 +0100, Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>I'm curious as to how a choice like this gets made.  Could you elaborate?

Other people have answered with the why but not the how.

Choices (like this one about archive formats) get made when people sit
down and actually do the work to improve FreeBSD.  People with commit
bits are generally (but not completely) trusted to have an
understanding of software-system aesthetics and of the sorts of
choices developers might reasonably make on their own.  The more
effort one is personally willing to put into the project, the greater
latitute one has in design.

-GAWollman

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