-1 I also am against removing the most popular (and built into the OS) archive format known to man out of convenience for the packager. This seems more like a need for packaging automation, IMHO. I tend to agree with you that if you want to remove any format, 7z should go before zip does.
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Thomas Dinges <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
