Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 18:11:23 -0400 From: Jim Brown <jpb@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Dropping gzip'd docs on the FTP site Message-ID: <20030518221123.GA33669@sixshooter.v6.thrupoint.net> In-Reply-To: <20030518195845.GB19455@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <20030518195845.GB19455@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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* Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> [2003-05-18 15:59]: > 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? > > N > -- > FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ (__) > FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ \\\'',) > \/ \ ^ > --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- .\._/_) Fine with me. Any particular reason? Is this another de-GNU-ity? Ruslan just had the same discussion on -CURRENT a few weeks ago. There was some controversy involving various tradeoffs with compression size, and processing time. Might want to review those just to make sure that the dial-up and low-bandwidth users aren't impacted. Wouldn't hurt to run benchmarks before and after as well. I'd do it myself, but it's Sunday afternoon and I'm too lazy :-) Best Regards, jpb ===
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