On Jan 25, 2008 10:27 PM, chris# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:35:19 +0100, Michael Baierl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > till wrote: > >> > >> I guess it wouldn't hurt to make this configurable. ;-) > >> > > > > I agree, but I would also say that ZIP is the de-facto standard that is > > supported by all Operating Systems. And why build up something where you > > can choose between zip, arj, rar, gz, bz2 when practically all do the > > same and just one is needed? > > Because most of the others are able to compress/uncompress faster and > smaller. Because there is greater support in most of the web products for > gzip/bzip - not to mention the fact that the most frequently used/ installed > web server (Apache) can compress web communication on-the-fly. > Did I mention that PHP supports gzip out-of-the-box? :) > > Sorry, couldn't resist. :)
Hehe.... ;-) Yeah, well, of course we want to cater the majority. Even if it's a pain, and *my* OS does all of the above. But, yeah - zip. Till _______________________________________________ List info: http://lists.roundcube.net/dev/
