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

2000-01-24 Thread Brad Knowles
At 2:01 PM -0500 2000/1/24, John Baldwin wrote: The new install system is probably going to use zip rather than bzip2. I'm curious as to how a choice like this gets made. Could you elaborate? -- These are my opinions and should not be taken as official Skynet policy

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

2000-01-24 Thread 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