Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> I think it would make more sense to have it up there with the other >> archive utilities, but eh; what do I know? :-P >> > > bzip2 is not an archiving tool. It compresses files. It does not > archive them.
Just to chime in here (as the bzip maintainer), Chris is correct. bzip2, like gzip/gunzip, compresses single files. Tar is used to archive collections of files into a single package -- tar is an archiver. Zip is both an archiver AND a compressor. Now, because archives are often compressed, you frequently see tools from both categories used together (.tar.bz2, tar.gz) -- but that doesn't make bzip2 an archive tool. It's still a compressor. The fact is, these groupings (Utils, Development, Archive, etc) will never please everybody -- and if someone is missing a tool that they want, and can't find it in the "categories" list...it seems obvious (to me, at least) that the user should run setup again and check out the 'Full' package list -- which is alphabetically organized, without those pesky categories -- for the desired item. (run on sentence, anyone?) --Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
