Re: [Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Friz

[Jaime E. Villate]

On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 02:06:54PM -0500, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.gnu.org.
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden

> Julien Frison <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: Friz
> System name: friz
> This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project
> 
> This program can reduce the size of a file, like gzip does. Now, gzip is very 
> often twice better, but the project is very young. Already four versions were 
> done but no one has been distributed yet.
> It works with an index which contains 2^b words of B bits , transformed to 
> words of b+1 bits, although the words which are not in the index becomes 
> words of B+1 bits, where b<B and b and B are beetween 1 and 31 at this moment.

Hi,
We would like to take a look at the source code of your project. Please tell
us a URL where it can be found, or email-us us a tarball.

Please register your project again, with a pointer to the source code. Since
the GNU project already has a compression/decompression program (gzip), you
should also explain why you think another one is needed; in which way do you
plan to improve gzip? and why do you feel the need to start a new GNU project
rather than contributing to the improvement of gzip?

Regards,
Jaime