On 21-7-2012 14:17, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > 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.
That sounds sensible (and I think using zip is a good middle ground for all platforms but I appreciate people's preferences may be different). -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
