On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:30:04 -0000, Jim wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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). ..can this installer be set up to use it's own temporary ".exe"-style decompression tools using GNU gunzip, GNU tar etc? > Zip files are everywhere, we aren't going to get sued for using them, ..no? ;-) Never heard of The SCO Group and Microsoft? http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041228040645419 or http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653 and http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2005010406110017 -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
