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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com>
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] let's talk contrib
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:11:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ad639274640f6dfb67830e4b34f97b2d@coraid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <154bd45164147842b26c7ba30e3a38ff@proxima.alt.za>

On Sat Apr 28 14:10:31 EDT 2007, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > tbz is Lunix, surely.
> > If we value simplicity, contrib should be pre expanded. 
> > discuss ?
> 
> A valid point, specially when Venti lies behind it.  

venti doesn't do compression.

an uncompressed tar is still somewhat foreign to plan 9.  
a mkfs archive would be a little closer to home.
but why archive?  just copy the file tree.

(yes.  i know.  my contrib area is filled with compressed tarballs.
old habits die hard.  bad habits die harder.  old, bad habits. ...
i need a beer.)

- erik


  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-29  1:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-28 18:03 mattmobile
2007-04-28 18:10 ` Lucio De Re
2007-04-29  1:11   ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2007-04-29  2:07     ` Federico Benavento
2007-04-29  2:37       ` [9fans] " Darren Bane
2007-04-29 20:10       ` [9fans] " Russ Cox

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