[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/tech patches.txt,1.22,1.23

[Diego Biurrun]

Attila Kinali writes:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:46:15PM +0200, Diego Biurrun CVS wrote:
>       that your mailer messes up (reformats) text attachments. It only makes
> > -    handling the patch more difficult.
> > +    handling the patch more difficult. If you have to compress your patch,
> > +    use bzip2 or gzip to compress it, not another non-standard format.
> 
> Be carefull with non-standard. rar is _the_ standard on windows.
> So a lot of people think it's the standard everywhere.

Umm, I beg to differ.  The standard on Windows in WinZip, 99% of all
people have never even heard of rar.  It's only among somewhat
computer-literate Windows users that rar has some market share.
Anyway, this is getting offtopic.

> It should spell
> rather something like "not any other format". And IMHO we should add
> here zip (ie the pkzip fromat) too, as it's a widely used format and
> there is a free prog for it on unix too. IMHO2, the ordering should be
> gzip, bzip2, zip, mainly because of the speed of gzip.

bzip2 is fast enough on my 500MHz box, our releases are bzip2
compressed as well, so I guess it should be OK.

Diego