Dethe Elza writes:
[...]
> I've never known a *nix box to have trouble with *.zip or known a unix
> user who had trouble with *.zip. So I'd suggest keeping the various
> flavors of documentation, but standardize on zip compression. That
> will at least remove one variable.
What Unix boxen do you use? I often run into Solaris, IRIX, and HP-UX
boxen that lack unzip.
> I agree that the main point of all of this is to reduce confusion for
> the newbie coming to the site to download it. But 90% of those are
> going to be windows users, and the rest of us have gotten used to
> living in a windows-dominated world. Using bz2 may get you better
> compression and save bandwidth, but it wasn't standard the last time I
> installed RedHat or Debian. Zip has it's faults, but everybody is
> familiar with it.
I wouldn't switch to bz2. Even tgz can be confusing. Having .zip files
for Windows users and .tar.gz files for Unix users is a happy medium
that should work most everywhere. Of course for maximum Unix
portability I suppose you could use .tar.Z ;-)
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