Re: Time for 4.0.5?

Zeev Suraski wrote: > About bzip2 - my personal opinion is that we should probably not bother > with it. It's slower and it's much less standard (there's a world beyond > Linux, remember). I have it on the BSDs and Solaris too. > We definitely can't give up our .tar.gz/.zip distros, > because these are the standard ways of distributing apps on the net and > people would expect them. I wouldn't suggest that php.net stops handing out those. > Given that, I don't think that adding .bz2 is > going to be much more helpful than cluttering the download page... That's > just my opinion though. I'd think that the people with modems would appreciate the size decrease enough to deal with the one-time hassle of installing bzip2. It's no big thing to me, I'm on cable. Anyhow, maybe with the taylored setup thing that was discussed earlier? Emile