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List:       dragonfly-users
Subject:    Re: 7-Zip / Bzip2
From:       "Ben Cadieux" <ben.cadieux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-05-06 18:40:41
Message-ID: 70c3ee930805061135t1d56d1eap136a1b92b37b428f () mail ! gmail ! com
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>     Well, the issue is not so much one of download bandwidth as it is one
>     of accessibility.  Everyone has gzip, not everyone has 7z (yet).
>
>     I would rather not have multiple compression formats on the download
>     site, nor require that people have 7z in order to be able to unpack
>     our release CDs!

This is the 'bandwagon' I was referring to --- it's a chicken and egg
problem.  I can safely say I would rarely be using gzip or bzip2 if 7z
were in the base installs of all Linux/BSD releases.  No one uses
"compress" any more because gzip/bzip2 are in the base.  If they
weren't, you'd still see .Z files everywhere.

Best Regards,
Ben Cadieux



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