gzip in base system

[Divacky Roman]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 12:40:35AM +0800, LI Xin wrote:
> Divacky Roman wrote:
> > hi..
> > 
> > I noticed gzip version 1.3.5 (at least) was released while our base only
> > has 1.2.4
> > 
> > is this intended or just because noone updated it?
> 
> Where is the announcement?  By the way, we are evaluating the
> possibility of replacing the GNU gzip with NetBSD's gzip version, which
> is implemented with zlib, and is a bit faster than GNU gzip from my test.

I found this version browsing www.gzip.org

its a bit messy but you can download the sources from there. But if you have
other plans I am all for it.. I just wanted to ask.

roman