Paul Eggert wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes:
http://directory.fsf.org/gzip.html; no mention there
1.3.5 is mentioned on that Directory page as the "(devel)" release.
Anyway, I wrote rms about the lack of official releases in recent
decades.
For what it's worth, I was responsible for gzip alpha releases 1.3
through 1.3.5, and would be willing to generate a 1.3.6 if there's
interest.
If you can get it marked "stable" (and especially represented as such on
fsf.org), I at least would be interested. As I said, after *seven*
years, I think it's about time. :-)
Initially I thought gzip 1.3 (released 1999-12-21) was going to be
official, but the maintainer demurred. I lost contact with him some
time after that. As I understand it he's busy doing other things.
Would that (and the 2003 update date) mean that gzip is unmaintained?
The gzip home page <http://www.gzip.org/> hasn't been updated since
July 2003, but it still says that a new official version of gzip will
be released soon. That comment about the new version been there since
at least January 2002, according to web.archive.org.
--
Matthew
My preferred shell is Christian. It's Bourne Again.
