pbzip2 isn't faster

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Sat Apr 5 10:02:10 PDT 2014


On Fri, 04 Apr 2014 20:39:26 -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> Since the MacPorts build system now accommodates adding third-party
> software into the build, if pbzip2 works reliably, it might be nice
> to include it with MacPorts and use it at least for compression and
> decompression of the archives, if not also for bzip2 distfiles and
> patchfiles.

Fedora is currently in the progress of switching to lbzip2. I don't
know how if this implementation is related to pbzip2, but the goals
sound similar.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/lbzip2

We do not have a port for it yet, though.

Rainer


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