What do we do about this?
IIRC, most people wanted to get tgz or zip back. Nothing has been 
decided, though.
Let's reopen the discussion :)

Sander

On 2002.04.17 18:40 sander@[...].net wrote:
>   ID:               16660
>   Updated by:       sander@[...].net
>   Reported By:      bvdb@[...].de
>   Status:           Open
>  -Bug Type:         Feature/Change Request
>  +Bug Type:         Documentation problem
>   Operating System: Windows xxxx
>   PHP Version:      4.2.0
>   New Comment:
>  
>  Nope, this is a documentation problem.
>  
>  
>  Previous Comments:
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
>  [2002-04-17 11:42:30] tal@[...].net
>  
>  Reclassified.
>  
>  -Tal
>  
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  
>  [2002-04-17 10:11:32] bvdb@[...].de
>  
>  Recently there was a change in the archive format of the downloadable
>  documentation - from tar.gz and zip to bz2. A link to a FAQ article
>  describing archive programs for the Windows platform was added in the
>  left pane of http://www.php.net/download-docs.php .
>  
>  The bz2 format is new and not common on Windows platform - which is
>  used by the majority of php users and programmers. Furthermore, the
>  linked programs "Ultimate Zip" and "Quickzip" do not work properly
>  with
>  bz2.
>  Using the bz2 format violates the rule of "least astonishment" and is
>  harmful to the positive image of PHP as being user friendly.
>  
>  Thus I propose to return to tar.gz or .zip format for the doc files.
>  
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>  
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>  Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16660&edit=1
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