bug#47633: closed (Provide direct download to .iso)

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regarding Provide direct download to .iso
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> Provide direct download to .iso
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> Wed, 7 Apr 2021 05:31:57 +0000
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> Hi There,
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> I see that guix compress its image here:
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> https://guix.gnu.org/en/download/
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> Which im not sure why (I dont see any known project doing that), But 
> regardless to the reason behind it this is actually give some problems 
> to users who want to use Guix on outside server, Many host providers 
> nowadays they give the opportunity to install whatever the user want 
> from distros according to his wish from outside source but one thing 
> needed for that is the URL to the .iso , And the host gonna 
> download/run/import the .iso for the user.
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> This is cant be achieved because there is no direct URL to the .iso, And 
> it causes some problems as well check #47632
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> ThX!
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> Thu, 06 May 2021 15:38:05 -0400
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)
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> Hello,
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> I'm happy to say this will be resolved with the soon-to-be-released
> v1.3.0 release; see commit 82c0f34c7e (maint: Do not xz-compress ISO
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> Closing!
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> Maxim
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