I agree with Jim : if we have to distribute tgz files, then we'll have to
distribute both zips and tgz. Are zip files a problem on unix ? I thought
that now all unixes had unzip installed by default ? Anyway, I've noticed
that most other jakarta projectd were distributing tar.gz files in addition
to zips, so there might be a good reason for that .... :)
Some are also signing the jars and others are also distributing rpms.
I guess we'll have to do that too ...
Thanks
-Vincent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Cheesman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: Distribution format for Cactus - A suggestion
> At 06:41 AM 26/09/01, you wrote:
> >Hello,
> > A small suggestion from me regarding the distribution of Cactus.
> >Instead of distributing them as ZIP files , can it be better to
> >distribute them as gzipped-tar files ( .tar.gz ) . This has got two
> >options.
> >
> >.tgz files are going to take less space than .zip files , hence
> >download time could be much smaller.
> >
> >Also the recovery ratio from a tar-archive is always greater than a
> >zip file.
>
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> I'd vote for both zip and .tar.gz - mainly because your average Windows
> programmer may not recognise the latter...
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