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Re: attn: which, bzip2,gzip maintainers (was Re: some problems with setup.ini)
- From: "Paul G." <pgarceau at qwest dot net>
- To: CA List <Cygwin-Apps at Cygwin dot Com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:42:44 -0800
- Subject: Re: attn: which, bzip2,gzip maintainers (was Re: some problems with setup.ini)
- Organization: Paul G.
- Reply-to: pgarceau at qwest dot net
On 28 Nov 2001 at 8:46, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
> > > > > Agreed. Shall we get rid of the separate archivers category?
> > > >
> > > > fine by me.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Uhm, bzip2, gzip, unzip and zip aren't archivers, they are compression
> > > utilities. Tar, mt and ar are archivers.
> >
> > I know. Your point being? Do you agree that we should get rid of
> > 'archivers' or disagree?
> >
> > The only things in 'archivers' are sharutils, zip and unzip. Once zip
> > and unzip are in utils, there's little need for sharutils to be in
> > archivers, as all the other archivers are also in utils.
> >
>
> Yes, get rid of it.
I agree.
Paul G.