Let's agree to disagree :) I still think .zip or .tar.gz is the right way to go for Windows users.
Andi At 09:10 08/04/2002 +0200, Gabor Hojtsy wrote: > > I definitely would go for either .zip or .tar.gz. I think .zip on Windows > > is preferable but as .tar.gz is supported by Winzip it's OK too. > > I don't think it's right to start educating windows users like Gabor says. > > It has nothing to do with bzip2 being hard but with the fact that barely > > anyone has it installed under Windows. > >Let's see who downloads the manual: > > a) A guy who used PHP before > b) A guy who is new to PHP > >In either case, that guy will program in a language, >write source code, set permissions on a server, upload >via FTP, and do many other things not automated by >click-and-play style software. We have no WYSIWYG >editor for PHP, PHP is not about clicking 15-20, and >putting up a new application. PHP is programming. > >Cannot we expect from that guy to download a small >bzip executable, and go to the command line to issue >*one* command and extract that bz2 file? > >Just go through the PHP installation instructions >for Windows/Apache, where guys need to unzip a package, >rename files, move some to the system dir, move some to >the windows dir, edit a text file for configuration. Can >we expect that guy mentioned above to do this, if he >cannot even issue *one* command to extract a file? >I think no, we cannot. > >Those users should not be treated lamers. They are >going to program in a language, which is much more >complex, than running a command line copy-pasted >from an FAQ. > >BTW. about bzip2 availability we can think of putting >a small bunzip to the windows binary zip and installer >distributions to make sure, that guys with PHP already >downloaded bzip2 availability is not a problem. License >questions are important here, though... > >BTW why don't we provide a .doc format of the manual? >Guys on windows most likely have word than acrobat >reader... Because it gives nothing more than pdf. >PDF is cross platform, smaller, etc. > >Goba
