This is a little off-topic, but just wondering... In my work on Develop, I am looking at a similar situation: application bundles. These are zip files with the extension .xo. My question is, why bother zipping them if the file system compresses anyway?
Why not, you ask. I know that ziptools can work on them in place (actually I don't want to anyway). But if the journal is going to eventually do version control, it may one day want to do diffs, and stuffing everything into a zip makes that a lot tougher. OTOH, these things do fly over the net, there is bandwidth. The same questions could be asked about any bundle file which is really a zip. Especially if it is full of jpg files, which zip doesn't compress any anyway. Just a thought, Jameson
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