Hi everybody, I'd like to drop .zip archives for our windows releases. At the moment we provide .exe (Installer version) and .zip and .7z (Extract & Run version).
Pros: * .7z archive is much smaller than .zip, saving traffic and also faster for people to download. * .7z format is open and supported by different programs: 7-Zip, WinZip, WinRar. Cons: * Windows does not support .7z out of the box, needs third party app like 7-zip. I understand that the one con is a problem in theory, but in practise most people have a third party app installed, whether it's 7-Zip, WinZip etc. Windows only supports .zip archives, so without a third party app, people can not uncompress/compress .rar, 7-zip, .tar etc... Asking people to install 7-Zip shouldn't be a problem, 7-Zip is free software (LGPL) and only 1 megabyte large. http://7-zip.org/ Anyway, I don't think we should keep 3x different types of binaries (*2 for the architecture) for Windows, as for Mac and Linux we also only provide one for each bitness. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Dinges Blender Developer, Artist and Musician www.dingto.org _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers