pbzip2 [PSARC/2009/247 FastTrack timeout 04/27/2009]

[James Carlson]

Cyril Plisko writes:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> > This project seems to run afoul of at least that first part.
> 
> I do not want to generalize, but with compressor/decompressor it is a
> very common to have many different algorithms to be supported within a
> single executable.

Sure.

That's just not this project.  This project is proposing an
integration of 'pbzip2', which is documented to be _exactly_ 'bzip2'
with MT changes applied.  It's not a new set of algorithms.  It's a
duplicate implementation with its own interesting new problems.

> formats. Does that mean we should have ditched unzip, gzip, bzip2, tar
> and cpio binaries when 7z have been integrated ? I don't think so.

No.  But that argument is also completely irrelevant for the project
under review.

> Can it be that the reality changed since 1991 and PSARC 1991/061
> should updated for the 21st century ?

File another case if you believe that to be true.  I don't, but the
context of *this* proposed project isn't really the place to have that
debate.

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