Please make gzip releases in some non-gzip/xz/lzip/bzip form, that is, uncompressed or .zip.
I and a colleague just had to waste time explaining to a user how to download an old version available as .tar, compile it, and then use that to install the new version. (No, evidently he had no binary. Whatever ...) It costs nothing to make the releases available in another format than .tar.*z, so ... ok? .zip would probably be best, to placate the Windows world, but anything would be better than nothing. --thanks, karl.