One thing I've spotted on several BOINC projects that you may want
to watch for:

Using a version of 7zip that, at least under some of the versions of
Windows Vista, works properly for unpacking files, but not for
packing output files to send back to the server.

From: David Anderson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] proposal for new update_versions -    
comments welcome

On 10-May-2011 11:05 AM, Tom Ritter wrote:
[snip]
> 3) This is way out of scope most likely - but would anyone else find
> it useful to have built-in support for bundling application files and
> automatically unzipping them on the client?  For applications with a
> lot of small files it reduces network roundtrips and bandwith
> considerably.**

This would a desirable feature,
but will have to wait for a future client release.
In the meantime, you can compress files individually; see
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/FileCompression#compress-input
(I believe this works for app files as well as input files).

-- David


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