Re: [Bug-ed] GNU ed 1.11-rc1 released

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Could you please also provide a tarball in some more widespread
> format, like xz or gzip?

Sure. Here it is:
http://fossies.org/linux/privat/ed-1.11-rc1.tar.gz/

But,
- lzip is available on every distro.
- gzip is becoming obsolete.
- xz has an horrible format developed in a hurry[1], and compresses 
tarballs worse than lzip[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip#History
[2] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip_benchmark.txt


Best regards,
Antonio.