[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Berry) writes: > > with http://directory.fsf.org/gzip.html; no mention there)... which, of > > 1.3.5 is mentioned on that Directory page as the "(devel)" release. > > Anyway, I wrote rms about the lack of official releases in recent > decades.
For what it's worth, I was responsible for gzip alpha releases 1.3 through 1.3.5, and would be willing to generate a 1.3.6 if there's interest. Initially I thought gzip 1.3 (released 1999-12-21) was going to be official, but the maintainer demurred. I lost contact with him some time after that. As I understand it he's busy doing other things. The gzip home page <http://www.gzip.org/> hasn't been updated since July 2003, but it still says that a new official version of gzip will be released soon. That comment about the new version been there since at least January 2002, according to web.archive.org.
