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Subject: Re: postgresql dict patch update
From: Matthew Hawkins (matthewtopic.com.au)
Date: Mon Feb 21 2000 - 23:17:59 CST

On 2000-02-21 20:00:14 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 3:01 PM +0100 2000/2/18, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > There is absolutely no reason to reject bzip2. Everybody can have it.
>
> There's no reason to use bzip2 so long as there are more
> compatible compression formats (e.g., gzip, compress, or nothing at
> all), unless you can be absolutely certain that everyone in your
> audience has and uses bzip2.

Define "more compatible". Judging from the home page at
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/bzip2/ there doesn't appear to be many
systems it _won't_ run on. Hell, it compiles unmodified on Win32 even.

> Just because it is not impossible for someone to go download your
> compression program of choice does not mean that everyone should be
> forced to, in order to deal with your patch.

I shouldn't have to download gzip then just to read _your_ patches.
Hell, why should I have to download a C compiler to compile them, too?
I prefer python - so make your patches available in python so I won't be
forced to deal with your language of choice. :-) 

-- 
Matt