Re: pbzip2 isn't faster

2014-04-05 Thread 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 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 w

Re: pbzip2 isn't faster

2014-04-05 Thread Eric A. Borisch
On Saturday, April 5, 2014, Chris Jones wrote: > > > > On 5 Apr 2014, at 06:02 pm, Rainer Müller > > > > 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

Re: pbzip2 isn't faster

2014-04-05 Thread Chris Jones
> On 5 Apr 2014, at 06:02 pm, Rainer Müller 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

Re: pbzip2 isn't faster

2014-04-05 Thread Rainer Müller
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,

Re: pbzip2 isn't faster

2014-04-05 Thread Eric A. Borisch
On Saturday, April 5, 2014, René J.V. wrote: > On Friday April 04 2014 22:33:31 Eric A. Borisch wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm all for it. To reiterate - pbzip2 outputs are fully compatible with > > > bzip2. > > > > Isn't there a similar interface to xz? Debian uses that for compression > now, and I

Re: help! - Python, Tkinter and IDLE

2014-04-05 Thread ugajin
Apology accepted. Yes, I still have to decide which way to go. I was happy enough to revert back to Python 2.6.2 on OSX as it seemed the simpler solution. The problem that I also encountered at this time if interesting, is an unrelated Python issue. On reflection, I have decided that to port

Re: pbzip2 isn't faster

2014-04-05 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Friday April 04 2014 22:33:31 Eric A. Borisch wrote: > > I'm all for it. To reiterate - pbzip2 outputs are fully compatible with > bzip2. Isn't there a similar interface to xz? Debian uses that for compression now, and I'm rather impressed with the compression gain that gives. R. __