On Feb,Wednesday 3 2010, at 6:44 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:04:22PM +1100, matthew green wrote: >> >> Update of /cvsroot/src/external/bsd/liblzf/dist >> In directory ivanova.netbsd.org:/tmp/cvs-serv22361 >> >> Log Message: >> Import liblzf version 3.5 (2-clause BSD licensed by Marc Lehmann) >> >> >> what's liblzf, and why do we want it in base? > > It's a tiny, very very fast compression library. Christos wants it > for bootblocks, among other things (or so he says -- ask him). > > The other obvious choice would be LZO but there's no suitably-licensed > implementation which performs well. > > We've had it in our tree at Coyote Point for a long time for a completely > different purpose, so I just grabbed it across. As time permits, I will > plug it into things like ssh, libarchive, and ipcomp. >
Where was this change discussed ? Why were are importing sourcecode without any users in base system(look at Lua case). If time permits is quite vague, if you will not have a time who will plug this lib to base ? Regards Adam.
