ϸòð Êîñàðåâñêèé ñ mail.ru wrote: > FK> Jonas Maebe wrote: >>> On 24 mei 2006, at 17:30, Florian Klaempfl wrote: >>> >>>> Not really because it is simply a tar ball of several .tar.gz. Because >>>> gzip is spread wider, we use this instead of bzip2/7zip. >>> Isn't bzip2 available more or less everywhere nowadays? (at least where >>> gzip is available, and in particular on Linux?) > FK> At least on debian woody it wasn't installed by default. No idea about > FK> sarge. > > > Just wondering: is RAR considered "spread wide"?
No. > > I know that compressor is commercial, Thus everybody building releases needs to buy a rar license? > but uncompressor is not (sources > are available, if I remember right), and it > compresses sources better than gzip by 25% (often even more). There > are better compressors, they are free (sometimes even open source), > but support matters (dos, windows, pocket pc, linux, free bsd and > macos x versions are ready to download). > > Or is it completely unacceptable because it isn't free? So the fpc installer needs to deliver a unrar binary? Forget about this on Linux, this requires more maintainance work than fpc itself ;) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
