7-Zip / Bzip2

Freddie Cash fjwcash at gmail.com
Sun May 11 10:55:51 PDT 2008


Compression algorithms are something that should be handled via an
extendle library.  And the front-end apps (gzip, bzip2, 7z, etc)
should just use that library to do the heavy lifting.

Instead of pulling in another app, consider pulling in libarchive and
friends from FreeBSD 6+, and then adding 7z support to that.

Then you can remove compress, gzip, gunzip, bzip2, bunzip2, 7z, etc,
and just put in stub programs that call the library functions.

-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com





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