[ITP] pbzip2 (and what was the upshot on pbzip2/libbz2 incompatibility?)

Peter Li chinasaurli@gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 18:52:00 GMT 2011


On 8/8/11 9:08 PM, Peter Li wrote:
> On 8/8/2011 4:23 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 8/8/2011 12:46 PM, Peter Li wrote:
>>> As they distribute a "windows" binary with cygwin.dll,
>> So, if the pbzip2 devs distribute a copy of cygwin1.dll, I assume they
>> also abide by the GPL and distribute the sources for that copy of 
>> cygwin?
> Huh, I seem to have invented this; they are not using cygwin1.dll 
> after all.  There are still plenty of such cases of course.  I'm still 
> willing to maintain the package.

In light of this, perhaps I should benchmark the cygwin compiled version 
to make sure it is reasonable to use this rather than insisting on the 
windows binary.  Will report back.

P



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