On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 09:39:56PM +0300, Juha Manninen wrote: > For me personally this is not an issue because I use Ark (comes with KDE) > and it opens pretty much any compression format you can imagine. Also, 7z > archiver can be installed to Windows.
Sure, but I don't like maintaining a set of compressors for each of the computers I occasionally fix bugs on. Just use zip. If the 7z bit matters, than your case is too big :-) > Creating artificial limitations for file formats is not a good idea. > Getting example projects (and patches) is a valuable thing and it should be > encouraged by being flexible. Another similar issue is the patch format. At > least earlier the Git patch format was rejected by developers, although Git > is especially good for maintaining local branches for people without commit > rights. The only patches I refused were refused because they didn't apply with normal gnu patch and diff. Not because they came from git. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
