Alan, The .zip files are targeted at the windows community and the .tar.gz files are targeted at the linux/unix communities. Of course u can use unzip to work with zip files in linux/unix but the preference is for .tar.gz.
So it's like we serve our ice-cream in chocolate and vanila flavor and people will use what they like most :) Regards, Rajith. On 11/29/06, Carl Trieloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Also release-M1.tar.gz contains both the .tar.gz files AND the .zip > files which makes no sense at all. Why do we even produce .zip files? > Last time I looked winzip can handle tar.gz files, and tar.gz is smaller > than .zip. If we must generate both then we need separate > release-M1.tar.gz and .zip. Also I always find it highly annoying when > people pack .tar.gz files inside other .tar.gz files. Why not just a > release.tar.gz file that directly expands to the content of all the > qpid-*.tar.gz file. > when we put them up on the download site we will put the tar's up in one section and zip's up in another section. This is just a tarball of all the packages that we will distribute. make sense?
