RFC: Dropping gzip'd docs on the FTP site

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Sun May 18 20:02:42 UTC 2003


On Sun, 18 May 2003 20:58:45 +0100
Nik Clayton <nik at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi chaps,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Support for building gzip'd docs would remain in the tool chain, I just
> want to remove the format when the docs are built for the FTP site.
> 
> Comments?
> 

[Snip cute little daemon and Nik's sig]

Personally, I think it would be fine.

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Tom Rhodes



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