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From: | mwoehlke |
Subject: | Re: OT: latest stable version not recommended |
Date: | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:19:52 -0500 |
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Paul Eggert wrote:
address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:http://directory.fsf.org/gzip.html; no mention there1.3.5 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.
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