Oh, crud. Sorry. You are right. I just skipped that word somehow. I saw "next release" and got the installer stuck in my head. My bad.
The main problem with using 7z instead of zip isn't that it's basically not supported in anything but Windows (because, as the OP said, it's open source, so we could intragate the compression into OpenOffice.org which would make it crossplatform). The problem is, ODF is already a standardized format. Basically, it's too late to be changing it now. If OOo was the only one to use ODF, then sure, we could change it anytime. But it's a OASIS standard, and is, or soon will be, an ISO standard. It is used by other programs, like KOffice, Writely, and AbiWord. It's out of our hands now. Whether or not 7z would have been a better choice, I can't say. But it would be a bad idea for OOo to start using it now, because then we would be non-standard to the format we helped create. Thanks for the suggestion, though. -Chad On 7/18/06, Rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Chad Smith wrote: > We actually did use the 7z compression for the Windows port one time. It > was a self-contained self-extractor, (so no one needed to have 7-Zip > installed). It saved about 20 MB of download. I'm not sure why we stopped > using it, other than Daniel and I haven't been making the extractor. I > thought the releases group was going to start using it - but I guess they > haven't been. that's about installer - but the original poster mentioned odf in his message, so that seemed to be a suggestion to replace zip with 7z in file formats. ... -- Rich --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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