On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 14:07:57 +0200 Reinier Olislagers <[email protected]> wrote:
> I noticed that in issue 22455, Bart Broersma says: > > Please don't use .7z as compress format, it isn't supported out of the box > > on many platforms. > > If we shouldn't use 7z files, which format should we use then? zip? > .tar.gz? > AFAICT, these suffer from the same problems (e.g. no built in > support on Win98 platforms and/or various unix flavours)? If you have an example for an issue specific for platform X then you should use a format for platform X. Otherwise use zip or tar.gz/tgz. Mattias -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
