I don't want to do this without a bit more support than three +1 and one +0. Asking user's list would likely trigger a response from some of those 9% using ZIP today who don't want to change scripts. But I'm more looking for technical arguments that are important but have slipped our minds. We can of course add some extra docs to README and Ref-Guide about how to untar on Windows.
Jan > 17. jan. 2022 kl. 12:07 skrev Alessandro Benedetti <[email protected]>: > > +1, I think the benefits in terms of preserving resources (and also > environment-wise) outweigh the cost of downloading a specialized tool on > windows for the users that need that because on an old windows. > > Cheers > -------------------------- > Alessandro Benedetti > Apache Lucene/Solr PMC member and Committer > Director, R&D Software Engineer, Search Consultant > > www.sease.io <http://www.sease.io/> > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 at 22:54, Shawn Heisey <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > On 1/16/2022 2:58 PM, Mike Drob wrote: > > +0 > > > > I have no issue with this, but would maybe like to see a discussion on > > the user@ list first and to hear the thoughts of our Windows users (Uwe? > > Steve? Shawn?) > > +1 > > To say that I'm a Windows user would not quite be accurate. Every place > I have actually deployed Solr has been on Linux. CentOS mostly, and > most recently on Ubuntu. I prefer the latter. > > My personal workstations have always been Windows. It's a path of least > resistance -- I'm very familiar with it, and most of the games I like to > play are only available for Windows. I have recently been using Ubuntu > Desktop on my primary work machine. And I have to say that I really > like it. It was easier to transition than I had imagined. I absolutely > love having linux commandline tools available on a workstation. > > With no zip, it will be a slight inconvenience for some Windows users, > but they do have tools available that can extract a tgz file. I wasn't > aware that tar had been added to Windows ... that's cool. I just > extracted the tgz on my Windows 10 desktop using it. And for users of > Windows versions that don't include tar, they can download a tool like 7zip. > > Thanks, > Shawn > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> >
