Is it typical at Apache for .gz files to be distributed too? I know
that whenever I've done releases, I have only done .zip files.

Paul

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I personally think that not having a tar.gz will be very "unnatural" for unix
> folks and will cause a barrage of "where's the unix build?"  emails to users@
> and such.
>
> To me, there is no downside of having it.  It takes an extra couple seconds to
> build and upload.   Who cares?      But the potential for annoying unix
> "purists" that won't touch that "windows stuff", would be a downside of not
> having it.
>
> That, and pretty much none of my older Solaris and AIX boxes have unzip.  :-)
>
> My $0.02.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Sun October 11 2009 11:07:32 pm Jason van Zyl wrote:
>> Modern zip implementations seem to handle perms and such fine, how
>> about we just distribute a zip?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jason
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