bz2 neccesary with bundle?

[TK Soh]

--- Matt Mackall <mpm at selenic.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 06:00:46PM -0800, TK Soh wrote:
> > I ran into problem when trying to do bundle/unbundle at home. It turned out
> > that bz2 module isn't installed on my Linux box. While the problem isn't
> too
> > difficult for me to fix, it may be a problem for others who do not realize
> > bzip2 is required - like I just did.
> 
> Your Python install appears to be broken. Bz2 is part of the standard
> Python library in 2.3.

I will have to fix this. It was my mistake to assume things developed for *nix
will just work on Linux ;-)

> > Can we consider doing bundle with gzip, or whatever that Mercurial
> > is doing for revlog?
> 
> I'd rather not.

Just to satisfy my curiosity, can you share the reasons bzip2 has been chosen
for bundle? If the main drive has been bzip2's better compression ratio, I
wonder why revlog isn't already using bzip2.


		
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