Re: [dev][sbase] Proposal of suckless compression

2014-09-23 Thread Ralph Eastwood
On 24 September 2014 01:18, Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe wrote: > Is there something wrong with sflate? I had missed sflate, thanks! Although, having now looked, I'm envisioning something smaller than sflate. On 24 September 2014 01:29, Dmitrij D. Czarkoff wrote: > IMO generating compressed tarball

Re: [dev][sbase] Proposal of suckless compression

2014-09-23 Thread Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
Ralph Eastwood said: > Some time ago, there was some discussion about sbase's tar with > compression. I was wondering if this compression tool would > necessarily have to be a standard gzip/bzip2/xz implementation. IMO generating compressed tarballs with rare compression scheme sucks. Aren't tarb

Re: [dev][sbase] Proposal of suckless compression

2014-09-23 Thread Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
Quoth FRIGN on Tue, Sep 23 2014 13:39 +0200: I'd love to have a simple, suckless compression-algorithm and see no problem in adding one to the suckless-universe. Is there something wrong with sflate? -- Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe

Re: [dev] [RFC] Design of a vim like text editor

2014-09-23 Thread ale rimoldi
hi marc andré as announced a few days ago, here is my write down about vis. you probably won't agree with each point in there... for many years now, i've been using vim as my main text editor. both for code and for typing text. while i consider myself a vim heavy user, when i browse through

Re: [dev] writing a suckless sed

2014-09-23 Thread M Farkas-Dyck
On 22/09/2014, Evan Gates wrote: > One thing I'm not clear on, in your opinion does suckless software use > fixed or dynamic sized buffers/stacks? i.e. should it support > arbitrarily long lines? depth of nested blocks? number of write files? > I've seen some of both in software that seems suckles

Re: [dev][sbase] Proposal of suckless compression

2014-09-23 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 12:30:21PM +0100, Ralph Eastwood wrote: > Some time ago, there was some discussion about sbase's tar with > compression. I was wondering if this compression tool would > necessarily have to be a standard gzip/bzip2/xz implementation. > > As Gzip,Bzip2 and XZ rely on rather

Re: [dev][sbase] Proposal of suckless compression

2014-09-23 Thread FRIGN
On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:30:21 +0100 Ralph Eastwood wrote: Hey Ralph, > Some time ago, there was some discussion about sbase's tar with > compression. I was wondering if this compression tool would > necessarily have to be a standard gzip/bzip2/xz implementation. > > As Gzip,Bzip2 and XZ rely on

[dev][sbase] Proposal of suckless compression

2014-09-23 Thread Ralph Eastwood
Hi, Some time ago, there was some discussion about sbase's tar with compression. I was wondering if this compression tool would necessarily have to be a standard gzip/bzip2/xz implementation. As Gzip,Bzip2 and XZ rely on rather complicated code bases, I propose that a different algorithm (proba

Re: [dev] writing a suckless sed

2014-09-23 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 02:40:27AM +0200, FRIGN wrote: > There's currently no plan to implement a regex-engine, because we don't > suffer from NiH. Really? :P