[leafnode-list] Poll about leafnode 1.9's future distribution

[Gerry Doris]

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Matthias Andree wrote:

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> Dear reader,
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> as you may know, leafnode ships with a full PCRE 3.9 distribution
> included, to simplify installation.
> 
> Given that most operating systems come with PCRE and bzip2 or have
> up-to-date PCRE and bzip2 packages from third parties, and the PCRE
> stuff that leafnode is shipping is outdated (PCRE 4.5 is current),
> I am considering to release 1.9.55 as 1.10.0 with PCRE removed and as a
> .tar.bz2 file only (no .tar.gz offered).
> 
> To give you some figures, this is the leafnode 1.9.54 tarball size:
> 
>    With PCRE, gzip:  854322
> Without PCRE, gzip:  459164
> 
>    With PCRE, bzip2: 705724
> Without PCRE, bzip2: 381859
> 
> Feedback is solicited, let me know what you think.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
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> Matthias Andree

I'm using Fedora 1 and use bunzip2/tar to uncompress leafnode.  I don't 
believe I need the other files you currently put in your distribution.

-- 
Gerry

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