Re: GNU grep 2.5.4 released

[Tony Abou-Assaleh]

Hi Antonio,

I am forwarding your request to the grep development mailing list for
consideration. Whether lzipped tarball of grep are release will depend
of the feedback I receive from the community. Particularly, if there is
demand for them then I'm personally in favour.

Thanks for putting this forward and the detailed info.

Cheers,

TAA

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Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Would you accept a lzipped tarball of grep to be distributed along
> with the gzipped one? The size savings are about 30% and 16% with
> respect to gzip and bzip2.
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 antonio users 860636 2009-02-10 17:07 grep-2.5.4.tar.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 antonio users 723181 2009-02-10 17:07 grep-2.5.4.tar.bz2
> -rw-r--r--  1 antonio users 606033 2009-02-10 17:07 grep-2.5.4.tar.lz
>
> Or if you prefer to make it yourself, lzip can be found here:
> http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
> http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/lzip
>
>
> Also, by using zgrep from zutils[1][2], I hope you can avoid bloating
> grep with decompression code[3] and non-standard options.
> [1] http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/zutils.html
> [2] http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/lzip/zutils-0.1.tar.gz
> [3] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2008-04/msg00016.html
>
>
> Regards,
> Antonio.