Cyril Plisko writes: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> > wrote: > > This project seems to run afoul of at least that first part. > > I do not want to generalize, but with compressor/decompressor it is a > very common to have many different algorithms to be supported within a > single executable.
Sure. That's just not this project. This project is proposing an integration of 'pbzip2', which is documented to be _exactly_ 'bzip2' with MT changes applied. It's not a new set of algorithms. It's a duplicate implementation with its own interesting new problems. > formats. Does that mean we should have ditched unzip, gzip, bzip2, tar > and cpio binaries when 7z have been integrated ? I don't think so. No. But that argument is also completely irrelevant for the project under review. > Can it be that the reality changed since 1991 and PSARC 1991/061 > should updated for the 21st century ? File another case if you believe that to be true. I don't, but the context of *this* proposed project isn't really the place to have that debate. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
