[Zlib-devel] zlib 1.2.2 released. almost

[Cosmin Truta]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Mark Adler wrote:

> On Oct 12, 2004, at 7:24 AM, Cosmin Truta wrote:
> > I would like to recommend removing from the web page, some (most) of
> > the
> > links to "unofficial (contributed) patches and binaries":
>
> Done.

Oh, and there is the text in the main page, which accompanies the link
to www.zlib.net/contrib/index.html, and which needs to be updated as
well:

  "unofficial (contributed) patches and binaries (not tested by zlib
   team)
   includes patches and ports for Cygwin, Delphi 5, Palm OS, Win64,
   and WinCE; performance patches (match.asm for MASM 6.1, malloc
   optimization); and binaries for Win16, Win32, and WinCE"

... but then I noticed that both the Palm Pilot and the WindowsCE ports
have links in the main zlib page. They are also upgraded, and available
in the pages pointed to by these links. So they don't need to be hosted.
The only one that remains, is the Win16 port, which is at version 1.0.4.
The lack of interest in the Win16 port is quite obvious.

So: we don't really need this www.zlib.net/contrib/index.html at all!
Whatever is sent to us, is included in the zlib distro, anyway.

> There's probably a lot of other cruft in the long list of link on the
> zlib page.  Chances are that some of them aren't even there anymore.

It's probably better to remove the information about the version number
they refer to, because they keep on being updated. The web surfer can
follow the links and see the current version number once that s/he
arrives. There is still a problem if the zlib version is hard-coded into
the web links (such as the first item in the list below), but at least
the job of updating the long list will be easier if the version info is
removed.


Here is an update:

zlib for HP-UX 10.20 and 11.00
link to: http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/zlib-1.1.3/
upgraded to: 1.2.1
relocated to: http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Misc/zlib-1.2.1/

zlib for Solaris
link to: http://www.sunfreeware.com/
and: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/sparc/
upgraded to: 1.2.1

zlib for Digital Unix
link to: ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/free/by-architecture/alpha-dec-osf4.0d/zlib-1.1.3/
upgraded to: 1.1.4
relocated to: ftp://ftp.thewrittenword.com/packages/by-architecture/alpha-dec-osf4.0d/zlib-1.1.4/

zlib for BeOS
link to: http://www.bebits.com/app/1367
relocated to: http://www.bebits.com/app/2822
upgraded to: 1.1.4

zlib for OS/2
link to: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/unix/zlib113.zip
relocated to: http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/dev/unix/zlib-121-vac4.zip
upgraded to: 1.2.1

zlib for Palm Pilot (PalmZLib)
link to: http://palmzlib.sourceforge.net/
upgraded to: 1.1.4

zlib for Windows CE
link to: http://www.tenik.co.jp/~adachi/wince/
upgraded to: 1.1.4

zlib for Windows 9X/NT
link to: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/zlib.htm
upgraded to: 1.2.1

zlib for Netware
link to: ftp://pink.seudns.net/pub/mirrors/zlib
status: disappeared (but the NLM is still on zlib's site)

zlib Delphi5 interface
link to: http://www.base2ti.com/zlib.htm
upgraded to: 1.2.1 (and it's now an upgrade to contrib/delphi/)

Gilbert Baumann's inflate implementation in Common Lisp
link to: http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~unk6/closure/
status: lost (might be somewhere else, but I don't have any idea where)

zlib information in Japanese
link to: http://www.matsusaka-u.ac.jp/~okumura/compression/zlib.html
relocated to: http://oku.edu.mie-u.ac.jp/~okumura/compression/zlib.html


The other links appear to be fine.

Best regards,
Cosmin