On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:57:08AM +0300, Viesturs Lācis wrote: > What is wrong with zip? It is supported out of box in all OSes, while rar is > not.
Indeed. tar+gz, tar+xz are great alternatives if you're interchanging files with Linux folks, and zip is the sensible choice if you've got to interchange them with other-OS folks as well. If you need top-notch compression (which you don't for something that is of a size that is appropriate to attach to the forum), want to exchange the file with people on win/mac as well, and don't mind making people install extra software, then 7z in lzma2 mode is a good choice. I *think* this has better win/mac support than tar+xz and offers approximately the same file-size improvements over zip that tar+xz offers over tar+gz. (gz and zip are both zlib, while xz and 7z are both lzma) On the other hand, the RAR compressor is proprietary and its EULA reportedly bears a "no reverse engineering" clause[1], and the decompressor for current RAR versions is under a license that does not meet Debian's free software guidelines.[2][3] I'm glad that a setting on the forum discourage use of this type of file. Jeff [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAR [2] https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=unrar [3] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-non-free ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
