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Re: compress / ncompress package for Cygwin


On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 08:13:40PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Aug 23 12:23, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
>> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:09 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 
>> > On Aug 23 16:11, Hubert Garavel wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > Contrary to most Unix-like operating systems, Cygwin does not have
>> > > the /bin/compress command installed by default and has no package
>> > > to install it on demand. Cygwin has an uncompress command (that relies
>> > > on gunzip), but no compress command to make genuine .Z files.
>> > > 
>> > > This would be certainly easy to solve, using the work of the Ncompress
>> > > project at http://ncompress.sourceforge.net/
>> > 
>> > Why not, but "somebody" (you?) will have to create and maintain the
>> > 32 and 64 bit packages as the official Cygwin package maintainer.
>> 
>> http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/ncompress
>
>Assuming that you're willing to provide this package in the main distro...
>
>> Note that on Fedora, uncompress is provided by ncompress, not gzip,
>> although that is not mandatory.
>
>...it would probably make a lot of sense to move uncompress from
>gzip to ncompress.
>
>Chris, as gzip maintainer, do you have any problem with that?

Nope.

cgf

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