Re: Re: too much distributions on php.net
| From: | Derick Rethans | Date: | Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:49:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: too much distributions on php.net | ||
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On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Colin Viebrock wrote:
> > Well, the bz2 version for the latest PHP is approx. 1MB smaller then the gz
> > version. I guess developers who download PHP source have bz2 on their
> > machines. Or is there any linux/unix without bz2 support? Or do we assume
> > that guys on Windows are unable to unbzip2 the download [also noting that the
> > docs are only provided in bz2 now!].
>
> My Mac and Windows copies of Stuffit Expander handle .bz2 files. WinZip
> doesn't. And there are lots of bzip apps for Windows.
We need both, both GZip and BZip. See the discussions on the
documentation list which are about the same topic.
> > It was Mark AFAIK, and I don't think he has bandwidth problems. There is
> > probably not too much traffic there. The site is also linked from the
> > downloads page.
It was Edin.
Derick
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