Erik Hofman said: > Jim Wilson wrote: > > > Unzip is an archiver and runs on just about anything. Comes with several > > linux distributions as well. > > Yes, but not all. That's the point. Should we honor Windows users where > there are some version of windows that ship with an ZIP extractor or > honor the UNIX world that comes standard with tar and gzip? >
http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/UnZip.html Is that less "all" than gzip? I think we should honor windows users because like it or not (I don't like it myself) they are 90%+ of the users out there. That would not be the case with flightgear because we haven't made it particularly easy for Windows users (non-developers on any os) to use the program (the windows installer is fairly recent). Zip files are everywhere, we aren't going to get sued for using them, and I would suggest that there are _very_ few people who do not have the ability to extract a zip file somehow. But I can imagine a lot of windows users won't know what to do with a gz or tgz file. Note that I am a long time unix and linux user and tar and gzip are my tools of preference. That's not what this is about. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
