RFC: Dropping gzip'd docs on the FTP site

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at freebsd.org
Mon May 19 11:35:52 UTC 2003


On 2003-05-18 18:11, Jim Brown <jpb at sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> wrote:
>* Nik Clayton <nik at freebsd.org> [2003-05-18 15:59]:
>>
>> At the moment the docs on the FTP site are available in gzip, bzip2, and
>> zip format.
>>
>> How do people feel about dropping support for gzip?  FreeBSD's shipped
>> with bzip for a while, and the zip format covers platforms where gzip or
>> bzip isn't common.
>
> Fine with me.  Any particular reason?  Is this another de-GNU-ity?

It'll also save some space (and lots of i-nodes) on the ftp master and
its mirrors.  Go fer it :)



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