Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2

Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by jrockway on Saturday February 01, 2025 @02:29PM (#42901342)

I suppose the point of open source software is to edit the source code and make your own version. If you can't build it, you can't do that.

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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by loeg on Saturday February 01, 2025 @03:09PM (#42901737)

Zstd has lots of contributors who have all figured out how to edit and build it.

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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by jrockway on Saturday February 01, 2025 @03:45PM (#42902069)

Yeah, not sure what the original commenter is complaining about. I did "git clone https://github.com/facebook/zstd", "cd zstd", "make" and have a working binary. Doesn't get easier than that.

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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by ThatGuyRaion on Sunday February 02, 2025 @12:48AM (#42906288)

Not everyone is using a standard tool chain or anything like that and oftentimes when I find projects with atypical build systems that give me trouble I tend to just move on to something else

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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by ThatGuyRaion on Sunday February 02, 2025 @12:48AM (#42906286)

It's basically a giant GCCism. Don't be condescending.

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Re:Bzip3: A better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2 by loeg on Sunday February 02, 2025 @02:17AM (#42906772)

I have no idea what you're talking about at this point.

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