On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:01:34PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >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?)
Except that there is no "Full" list yet. Isn't that a feature of newer setup.exe's? It actually doesn't seem that much of a stretch to me that even if bzip2 was located under a Category called "Woman's Underwear" you'd *eventually* be able to find it by clicking on categories until it was unearthed. Either that or clicking on View. cgf -- 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/
