Jeff Ramsdale dijo: >> > Asking a user to download and install another software >> > package is out of the question. They have perfectly capable >> > .zip functionality already on their system. We provide a .zip >> > file for the latest distribution, why night the nightly snapshot? >> >> It seems to me that if a user is sophisticated enough to realize that >> they really need the nightly snapshot for some obscure reason they are >> sophisticated enough to download the appropriate unzip utility. After >> all they figured out how to download Cocoon, install it and determine >> they need something more. > > It's not a matter of sophistication. It's a matter of easing the user's > entry into developing with Cocoon. It's inconsistent to offer a .zip for > one download and not for another.
As was posted before, the nightly snapshots are finding his own end life. The cvs are superseed this type of distribution. <joke> Sorry, but windows does not has integrated a CVS client. Because you will need to download and install another application. :( Maybe Bill will be interested in add to the windows family a CVS client to help us kick M$'s ass :) </joke> Now seriously, I think this is an automated task that will be stoped sometime from now. I think there is no interest in improve an ending life service as nightly snapshots. This is just my point of view. I have not nothing against zip format. > I once downloaded a .zip utility for my Windows ME machine for an > additional feature it offered over the native .zip handling. While it > did what I needed it really wasn't as convenient--there are some nice > features to Microsoft's .zip integration in Windows. So I uninstalled > the package. But meanwhile Windows lost all the nice handling of .zips > it used to have. It took some poking around and a not-obvious series of > steps to turn it back on. Another nice example of why I dont use MS products anymore... ;) > I can imagine another newbie doing the same > thing just to download and install a Cocoon nightly build when all of > this would have been mitigated by a pre-packaged .zip download that we > provide for a regular release anyway. As posted before a newbie looking for a nightly snapshot has the enough knowledge about compression formats that will be find the way to 7-zip or another compression tool to solve the problem of decompress the nightly build. >From my own experience, back in 2000 I was a windows users trying to review some GPL software that was compressed in the tar.gz format. I quickly find the way to manage this type of package. I think this is not too complicated to just download another utility and decompress it. Best Regards, Antonio Gallardo
