What a load of Crap and since when does everything have to be under Debians Free software guidelines ,,, time i moved on i think rather than try and assist others , and get slanged for it ... and if you did notice the attachement was a postprocessor for a WINDOWS machine
i'm seriously concidering my options to move on .. over such a stupid little thing rar files are just as common as any other format , i dont hold one any better than any other they cater for a job and thats it On 24 September 2014 13:03, Jeff Epler <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
