I would welcome the win32 distributions packed with bzip2
as well. This algorithm is superior to anything else I know
(well, at least in compression ratio), and is available to
win32 users as well. Not only as a commandline tool, but as
a plugin for the very popular wincmd32 too. Anything bzipped
is about half the size of that thing zipped.
At 13:49 19.2. 2001, Emiliano wrote the following:
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>Cameron wrote:
>>
>> since sending this email i have been thinking a lot about it. bzip2 is fine for
>> many sys admins but we have the problem of the redhat users (dont take this the
>> wrong way please) that have used no other distributions and have only ever
>> installed an rpm before, for these users bzip2 would get confusing. im more
>> inclined to have multiple distribution's, a standard user one which would be
>> base+mysql+mcrypt+zlib and not much more, an oracle one etc. the only problem is
>> working out what modules people are mostly using. *grin*
>
>Ah, that should not be too hard. In fact, RedHat does ship PHP in this
>way I think.
>
>> any other suggestions?
>
>So, about stripping those somments ...
>
>Seriously, we could offer the .tar.bz alongside the others. Those that
>do have bzip2
>will benefit.
>
>Emile
>
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