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Subject: Re: postgresql dict patch update
From: Brad Knowles (blkskynet.be)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 03:33:52 CST

At 4:17 PM +1100 2000/2/22, Matthew Hawkins wrote:

> 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.

        More compatible == shipped pre-compiled on more systems. So far
as I know, Sun is the only vendor that still ships only compress
pre-compiled, and under Solaris 7, even they ship "zip".

> 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. :-)

        Guess what? You're not the author of postfix. You don't get to
determine the language that patches will be posted in, and you don't
get to determine the program that will be used for compressing the
patches that are posted. 

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