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
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