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Re: Adding bz2 support to setup
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: Adding bz2 support to setup
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:06:08 -0400
- References: <20010410005828.A16120@redhat.com>
- Reply-To: Earnie Boyd <cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> I've just added bzip2 support to setup but I'm not quite sure how to
> test it.
>
> I guess I could check my changes in and then ask people to gunzip/bzip2
> some packages on their disks. I've already done that and it seems to
> work.
>
> What I really need to be able to do is test this via ftp. I don't have
> a download site with anonymous ftp available to me... Hmm. (thinking
> out loud) I guess I could setup my home system for this.
>
> Ok. I'll do this tomorrow.
>
> In the meantime are there any volunteers for testing this? FWIW, bzip2
> compression seems to make an amazing difference in the size of some of
> the source files and a not so amazing difference n the size of some of
> the binaries.
>
> cgf
I may be willing to test, dependent on time constraints. Since you're
concerned with size, did you know that a gzip of a bzip2 reduces the
size of the file further? (sic;)
Earnie.
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