binutils-2.13.tar.bz2

[Graeme Peterson]

Hi, all.

I may have missed the e-mails discussing this, but is
there a reason why the binutils-2.13 tarball and upgrade
patch are only posted in bz2 format?  I found, built and 
used bzip2, but it seems inconvenient to expect the world
to have to do that.

  $ ftp ftp://ftp.gnu.org
  Connected to ftp.gnu.org.
  
        <snip big blurb>
  
  ftp> cd gnu/binutils
  250 Directory successfully changed.
  ftp> pwd
  257 "/gnu/binutils"
  ftp> ls *2.13*
  200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
  150 Here comes the directory listing.
  -rw-r--r--    1 0        0         2177752 Aug 06 14:40 binutils-2.12.1-2.13-patch.bz2
  -rw-r--r--    1 0        0         9882367 Aug 06 14:40 binutils-2.13.tar.bz2
  226 Directory send OK.
  ftp>

Thanks.
GP