From: Jim K. <jmk...@po...> - 2003-03-01 22:09:09
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Circa 2003-03-01 14:28:45 +0000 dixit Thomas Leonard: : On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:43:03PM -0500, Jim Knoble wrote: : [ bzip as default? ] : > (a) Autodetect the availability of bzip2, and use it iff it is : > available. :=20 : The problem is more with people making archives that other people can't : read. Eg, a Linux user bzips something to email to a Solaris user... This is a time-honored problem. The best solution for that is negotiation between the humans about what format works best for the recipient and which ones the sender is capable of producing. As long as the program creating the archive allows the user to select the format of the archive to produce, and as long as it tells the user what formats it is capable of unpacking, then the rest is up to human beings. I was concerned mostly about the archive-creation program defaulting locally to a format that isn't supported by local (de)compression facilities. Perhaps it would be best, when a user attempts to unpack an unsupported format, to point the user to the appropriate place to retrieve the compression or archiving program (e.g., http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/ for bzip2, http://www.info-zip.org/ for unzip, http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzop/ for lzop, etc.). --=20 jim knoble | jmk...@po... | http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/ (GnuPG fingerprint: 31C4:8AAC:F24E:A70C:4000::BBF4:289F:EAA8:1381:1491) Stop the War on Freedom ... Start the War on Poverty! |