pbzip2 isn't faster

[Eric Gallager]

I whipped up a Portfile for it: https://trac.macports.org/ticket/43247



On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Rainer Müller <raimue at macports.org> wrote:

> 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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