Re: [Bug-ed] GNU ed 1.10 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Hello Ulrich.

Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Thank you for maintaining ed and for the new release. I cannot find
> any .tar.gz file for release 1.10, though. Is it on purpose that it
> is no longer provided?

You are welcome.

Gzip is becoming obsolete and a small but growing number of GNU projects 
are no more providing gzipped tarballs (alive, gnutls, coreutils, 
ddrescue, grep, guile-sdl, serveez, diffutils, idutils, parted, rcs, 
cppi, vc-dwim...).

I have been phasing out gzip for 5 years now, and my plan is to stop 
providing .gz files from now on. I hope this transition does not cause 
too many problems, as lzip is well supported by GNU tools like tar or 
automake, and is the only format used for testing versions by some 
projects[1].

[1] ftp://ftp.gmplib.org/pub/snapshot/


Best regards,
Antonio.