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Umm, gzip compression is also one of the possible http compression
algorithms. bz2 isnt.<br>
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There may be other legacy systems that require gzip compression.<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Sat, Sep 18, 2004, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Of the build systems I checked, all had gunzip, most had unzip, but
only the Linux systems had bunzip2.
The bzip2 homepage contains 1.0.2 binaries for exactly three plat-
forms, compared to over 20 systems for gzip and 30 systems for
unzip. I suppose older bzip2 versions (0.9.5) are compatible, but
someone should verify that they work before you pull the gzip
archives.
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Granted that bz2-only isn't a viable option, what does gz give us over
bz2/zip that makes it worthwhile to keep?
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