> > 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.
Ok. I won't push the point further. > <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 guess I didn't realize that. > > 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 don't mean to start that particular argument! I've got a Linux box too, so I'm not trying to take sides! I do like the .zip integration in Windows, though. > > 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. As we've seen on the users list, though, there often isn't much patience on the part of newbies in having to go through extra steps just to get a basic Cocoon setup going. > >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. Without belaboring the point, I don't see why the .zip package can't be built server-side since we're already doing it for the release. Is there a resource we're trying to preserve? Treat that as a rhetorical question if you want--I don't want to use up more bandwidth pursuing this if no one agrees with me. I use CVS myself, so I'm not even arguing on my own behalf. > Best Regards, > > Antonio Gallardo Paz, Jeff (Jefe, con mis amigos :-)
