Guys, I don't think we are interested in which compression format is most efficient for compression. Only popular, *really* popular ones such as tar.gz, tar.bz2 or zip would be the choice(s).
(What I practically mean is, it is being so off-topic.) Atsushi Eno Angel Marin wrote: > Michael Schurter escribió: >> Steve Deobald wrote: >>> It's also Windows-only and uses a proprietary RAR plugin, as far as I know. >> 7-zip is very much cross-platform compatible. NSIS uses it (and it >> works in Linux), and Debian even has packages for it in Etch. > > Well that's p7zip[1] not 7-zip :) > >> 7z, as well as a number of other open source tools, can decompress RAR >> archives. I believe there are patents or some such nonsense preventing >> open source RAR implementations. > > 7z has it's own 7z format [2] which is open and performs much better > than zip (today's mono-1.2.20061113.zip is 31MB while with 7z default > options it's only 13MB). > > Though it's not probably the best format (neither is rar) for this task > as p7zip may not be widespread enough. > > [1] - http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/ > [2] - http://7-zip.org/7z.html > > Regards, _______________________________________________ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list