sb> David C Worenklein <dcw(a)gcm.com&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: sb> The .tar.bz2s and patches are uploaded sb> It is too wasteful for slow network connections. Martin> This is a poor decision, if we want to encourage contributions to Martin> XEmacs. We MUST provide .gz files. Ideally we would also provide Martin> .bz2 files, as the Linux Kernel project does. What is wrong with 'gzip -9'? Though I am not (yet) able to benchmark it against bzip2, you could otherwise get all the "benefits" of bzip: - rather long compression/decompression times, and - rather small archives. For that matter, with which option is gzip currently being run when generating XEmacs distributions? --Kevin.

Well, can we put a link to http://www.digistar.com/bzip2/ on the XEmacs beta page so others can find it? Finding it easily will probably make all the complaints go away. -- Matthew O. Persico http://www.erols.com/mpersico