On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 09:59:59PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Friday 19 November 2010 22:02:48 David Cantrell wrote: > > Even if it does, there's not much point. bzip2 support is nowhere near > > universal, and preventing lots of users from using your code would seem > > to be a poor trade-off for saving an insignificant number of bytes. > One can easily install bzip2 to unpack that the distribution ...
One can indeed easily install it. Unless one is a Windows user, or is on a platform which bzip2 doesn't support, or your workplace policies prevent you from installing it. > > As for the others, I've never heard of them. > .xz is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz . If I wanted to find out about them I could use google. I have no interest in weirdo file formats. > Welcome to 2010. Social skills. You've no doubt heard of them. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence You don't need to spam good porn
