Re: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 12:19:42PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> At some point it probably would make sense to start deprecating .gz
> format files from kernel.org.

It is a convinient feature that I can download the kernel now and then
when at work (no linux) - and it makes it a bit simpler to use
an archiver that has native support for the format used.
Winzip, being the only allowed archiver at work, does not
have native bz2 support.

I have a .bz2 commandline version on the windoze machine so I will cope,
but mainly to let you know that deprecating .gz you will make it
difficult for a minority to read the kernel src.

	Sam