From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero" <ST001906 AT HRZ1 DOT HRZ DOT TU-Darmstadt DOT De>
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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 19:50:10 +0100
Subject: Re: old packages on simtel
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:19:14, Richard Dawe wrote:

> [snip]
> > -v2gnu/alphas/gzip132b.zip
> > -v2gnu/alphas/gzip132s.zip
> > -v2gnu/alphas/gzip133b.zip
> > -v2gnu/alphas/gzip133s.zip
> > -v2gnu/alphas/shl2011s.zip
> > -v2gnu/beta/gst175b.zip
> > -v2gnu/beta/gst175s.zip
> [snip]
> > +v2gnu/gst175b.zip
> > +v2gnu/gst175s.zip
> [snip]
> > +v2gnu/gzip132b.zip
> > +v2gnu/gzip132s.zip
> > +v2gnu/gzip133b.zip
> > +v2gnu/gzip133s.zip
> [snip]
>
> Are the maintainers of these packages planning to post announcements to
> djgpp-announce? Is anyone going to update mini-faq.txt with the new version
> number for gzip? (Just wanted to stop these things falling through the
> cracks.)


DJ Delorie wrote:
> > Are the maintainers of these packages planning to post announcements
> > to djgpp-announce? Is anyone going to update mini-faq.txt with the
> > new version number for gzip? (Just wanted to stop these things
> >falling through the cracks.)
>
> I don't know.  They'd just been in alpha for a long time, so I decided
> to give some incentive for some more testing.  I didn't delete the
> older versions though, just in case.


The reason why I have asked to put gzip132 and gzip133 in v2gnu/alphas/
is because there are not official FSF releases. I have taken the code
from alphas.gnu.org.
From a djgpp specific point of view, there is nothing alpha in those
ports. v2gnu/alphas/gzip132 and v2gnu/alphas/gzip133 share the same code
with v2gnu/gzip13 (except for minor adjustments). You can either delete
v2gnu/alphas/gzip132 and v2gnu/alphas/gzip133 completely or replace
v2gnu/gzip13 with v2gnu/alphas/gzip133. It is your choice.
I have been using gzip133 (on MSDOS and Win98SE) all the time since
I have uploaded that port and I have never experienced any difficulty
with it.
IIRC I have announced both v2gnu/alphas/gzip132 and v2gnu/alphas/gzip133
as alpha ports a couple of months ago and I have never get any complain.

Regards,
Guerrero, Juan M.