Re: Time for 4.0.5?

I would welcome the win32 distributions packed with bzip2 as well. This algorithm is superior to anything else I know (well, at least in compression ratio), and is available to win32 users as well. Not only as a commandline tool, but as a plugin for the very popular wincmd32 too. Anything bzipped is about half the size of that thing zipped. At 13:49 19.2. 2001, Emiliano wrote the following: -------------------------------------------------------------- >Cameron wrote: >> >> since sending this email i have been thinking a lot about it. bzip2 is fine for >> many sys admins but we have the problem of the redhat users (dont take this the >> wrong way please) that have used no other distributions and have only ever >> installed an rpm before, for these users bzip2 would get confusing. im more >> inclined to have multiple distribution's, a standard user one which would be >> base+mysql+mcrypt+zlib and not much more, an oracle one etc. the only problem is >> working out what modules people are mostly using. *grin* > >Ah, that should not be too hard. In fact, RedHat does ship PHP in this >way I think. > >> any other suggestions? > >So, about stripping those somments ... > >Seriously, we could offer the .tar.bz alongside the others. Those that >do have bzip2 >will benefit. > >Emile > >-- >PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net ------end of quote------ ____________________________________________________________ Cynic: A member of a group of ancient Greek philosophers who taught that virtue constitutes happiness and that self control is the essential part of virtue. cynic@mail.cz