Re: Some suggestions

Lindsay Mathieson <lindsay(_at_)powerup(_dot_)com(_dot_)au> writes:

> Why not just document the usage of zlib - A new compression algorithm would
> break existing implementations and compatibility is one of the objectives
> for the spec.
PGP used an early version of zlib which was limited to a 13 bit
compression window, the RFC documented zlib does not have this
limitation.  It's okay to support the old version, but why should
I not use a newer (and documented) one as an option?


Werner