Re: [9fans] let's talk contrib

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

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

hola,

I guess we need some conventions, for example where are we
going to put all the contrib files in our trees?
If we had such convention we could just use replica.


On 4/29/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> On Sat Apr 28 14:10:31 EDT 2007, [email]lucio@proxima.alt.za[/email] wrote:[color=green][color=darkred]
> > > tbz is Lunix, surely.
> > > If we value simplicity, contrib should be pre expanded.
> > > discuss ?[/color]
> >
> > A valid point, specially when Venti lies behind it.[/color]
>
> 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
>[/color]


--
Federico G. Benavento

> On 4/29/07, erik quanstrom <quanstro@coraid.com> wrote:[color=blue][color=green]
>> venti doesn't do compression.[/color][/color]

yes it does.

russ