On Fri, 24 May 2013 21:20:37 -0400 "Jonathan M Davis" <[email protected]> wrote: > > That would actually be a really good reason to not put all of the OS > releases in a single zip file. If they were separated (as a number of > people have been requesting for some time), then the POSIX ones could > use tar.gz or tar.bz2 or whatever to hold it all, and those can hold > symlinks. >
Yes, please! > Another possibility would be to stop using zip. There _are_ programs > on Windows which can handle tar.gz and the like (e.g. 7zip), and it > wouldn't surprise me if 7zip's own format could handle symlinks > (though I don't know), and a lot of devs are likely to have 7zip > installed. It _is_ a bit of a negative to _have_ to have something > like 7zip installed, but I believe that there are already quite a few > folks who release stuff in 7zip for Windows rather than zip (though > it's still a lot less common than zip). > IMHO and FWIW, No developer in 2013 has any excuse not to have a 7z-capable extractor. _______________________________________________ dmd-beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-beta
