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
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