mingw-bzip2, mingw-libbz2_1 (FYI)
Max Bowsher
maxb@ukf.net
Sun Oct 10 07:03:00 GMT 2004
Charles Wilson wrote:
> As discussed ages ago, I've uploaded a new package to sourceware that
> contains a mingw-compiled version of bzip2. Hopefully, this will allow
> cygwin utilities and tools, like setup.exe etc, that can't use
> cygiwn1.dll nor utility libs that depend on it, the ability to use bzip2
> compression in addition to the zlib compression provided by mingw-zlib.
> Without adding yet another copy of zlib|bzlib code to yet another
> repository.
>
> So maybe, just maybe, some of the multiple versions of zlib and bzlib in
> our repositories can start going away. Maybe.
Excellent! At some point when I have some time, I will change setup to use
these, and "cvs rm" the included source from the setup repository.
Max.
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