On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:57:08PM -0700, Eric Wong wrote: > > I'm unclear what advantage you see (or even what exactly you mean) > > about gzip vs. zlib. Do you mean fork/exec the gzip program? Why > > would that be an improvement? > > No, there's no need to fork/exec the gzip binary in revc, but you can > create gzip-readable files using the zlib library.
I always considered this a simple bug in the way zlib is invoked, and had in the past stated an intent to fix it, when revc was more complete. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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