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ssh binaries binary packages libz.so.1

Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 12:15:17 -0500
From: Tony Lawrence <tony@aplawrence.com>
Subject: Re: How on earth, was Re: New OpenSSH packages available (3.1p1)

Jean-Pierre Radley wrote:

> Let me know if my tarball works.  Prng isn't involved, and while libz is
> certainly used, I built ssh with a static zlib.a instead of a dynamic
> one.   It's opensshOSR5.tar.bz2 at ftp.jpr.com.
> 


BTW, that's yet another example of the kind of thing that frustrates 
people.  Somebody goes searching for OSR5 ssh binaries and gets a 
pointer to your ftp site.  Great! Here it is, all ready to go.. but they 
can't do a thing with it because they don't have Bzip.

Now (thankfully) you *do* provide bzip on the same site, so if they 
happen to notice that they will be able to enjoy success, but if they 
don't- well, it's off for another net search.  More frustration.

And is bzip stand alone or does it have dependencies?  The cycle can go on.

And what's the point?  Because bzip saves a few bytes?  Because it saves 
a few seconds?  All to naught if they have to download it and even worse 
if the non-standard compression has to send them off on yet another search.

Just my opinion, of course, but I don't think it's appropriate.




-- 
Tony Lawrence
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