ITP: mingw-bzip2, mingw-libbz2_1 (FYI)

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Sun Oct 10 18:08:00 GMT 2004


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Cool.  Thanks Chuck.
> 
> Funny, but I thought that we'd discussed this a while ago for use with
> cygcheck but now I can't see why cygcheck would need it.

Yes, I believe so.  Maybe somebody wanted to bzip-compress the .lst 
files in /etc/setup, instead of gzip-compressing them?

> Am I imagining things?  Didn't we decide that a bzip2 library would be
> useful for more than just setup.exe for some reason?

Well, there is a bzlib directory in winsup, separate from the one in 
setup's CVS tree.  Dunno what it's used for, tho.

--
Chuck



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