Re: bzip2 in src tree (Was Re: ports/16252: bsd.port.mk: Add bzi

[Mike Smith]

> At 2:01 PM -0500 2000/1/24, John Baldwin wrote:
> 
> >  The new install system is probably going to use zip rather than bzip2.
> 
>       I'm curious as to how a choice like this gets made.  Could you elaborate?

Zip was selected because it's one of the few compressed bundle formats 
that allows for random access within the bundle.  All of the 
stream-compressed tape archive variants require you to start at the 
beginning of the stream and decompress all the way up to the file you 
want, which is highly undesirable in several of the cases that we care 
about.

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