Resending the answer to hackers@ with my subscribed mail address. "Julian H. Stacey" <j...@berklix.com> writes:
> I suggest we should add a See Also section to man bzip2, > > FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE & current man bzip2 > .../-current/src/contrib/bzip2/bzip2.1 > > adding URLs > http://www.7-zip.org/download.html -> > http://www.freshports.org/archivers/p7zip/ > > as currently no reference is made to 7zip or 7-zip > > Quote from: http://www.minix3.org/download/ > The best known lossless compression algorithm is implemented > in the bzip2 program. It also has extremely fast decompression. > The popular 7zip archiver for Windows supports it too. Speaking with my p7zip maintainer hat on, I don't have anything to add to the proposal (any kind of change wouldn't involve that port anyway). As a user, though, I don't really see this being really necessary (dunno if there's some documentation policy with regards to recommending ports software in a base man page). 7zip itself is a Windows program, p7zip is done by a guy who looks at the 7zip code after it's released and tunes it to run on Unix. In the end, it's Julian's call IMO. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
