compress / ncompress package for Cygwin
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Aug 23 18:13:00 GMT 2013
On Aug 23 12:23, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:09 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
> > On Aug 23 16:11, Hubert Garavel wrote:
> > >
> > > Contrary to most Unix-like operating systems, Cygwin does not have
> > > the /bin/compress command installed by default and has no package
> > > to install it on demand. Cygwin has an uncompress command (that relies
> > > on gunzip), but no compress command to make genuine .Z files.
> > >
> > > This would be certainly easy to solve, using the work of the Ncompress
> > > project at http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Why not, but "somebody" (you?) will have to create and maintain the
> > 32 and 64 bit packages as the official Cygwin package maintainer.
>
> http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/ncompress
Assuming that you're willing to provide this package in the main distro...
> Note that on Fedora, uncompress is provided by ncompress, not gzip,
> although that is not mandatory.
...it would probably make a lot of sense to move uncompress from
gzip to ncompress.
Chris, as gzip maintainer, do you have any problem with that?
Corinna
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