Re: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-13 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 08:27 Europe/Rome, Jeff Ramsdale wrote: I expect the average new Cocoon user is also a Windows user (though I could be wrong). So why are the snapshots not in .zip format? FYI: WinZip supports tar.gz files just fine. That may be (and I suspected as much), but

RE: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-05 Thread Hunsberger, Peter
Jeff Ramsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks: Asking a user to download and install another software package is out of the question. They have perfectly capable .zip functionality already on their system. We provide a .zip file for the latest distribution, why night the nightly snapshot? It seems

RE: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-05 Thread Timothy Larson
--- Hunsberger, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If you really think it's necessary we could place links to the necessary unzip tools on the download pages... Lets add the links, just to be friendly to the users. --Tim Larson __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo!

Re: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-05 Thread Berin Loritsch
Hunsberger, Peter wrote: Jeff Ramsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] asks: Asking a user to download and install another software package is out of the question. They have perfectly capable .zip functionality already on their system. We provide a .zip file for the latest distribution, why night the

RE: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-04 Thread Jeff Ramsdale
I expect the average new Cocoon user is also a Windows user (though I could be wrong). So why are the snapshots not in .zip format? FYI: WinZip supports tar.gz files just fine. That may be (and I suspected as much), but WinZip would be another download for a user who just wants to try out

Re: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-04 Thread Berin Loritsch
Miles Elam wrote: Jeff Ramsdale wrote: I expect the average new Cocoon user is also a Windows user (though I could be wrong). So why are the snapshots not in .zip format? FYI: WinZip supports tar.gz files just fine. With WinXP, most people (meaning at least me) don't bother with WinZip

Re: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-04 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Berin Loritsch dijo: Miles Elam wrote: Jeff Ramsdale wrote: I expect the average new Cocoon user is also a Windows user (though I could be wrong). So why are the snapshots not in .zip format? Because there are too big for download and waste broandband ;) FYI: WinZip supports tar.gz files

RE: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-04 Thread Jeff Ramsdale
I expect the average new Cocoon user is also a Windows user (though I could be wrong). So why are the snapshots not in .zip format? Because there are too big for download and waste broandband ;) Versus downloading from CVS, which was the suggestion from the initial fictitious conversation

Re: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-03 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Jeff Ramsdale wrote: If all the cool features that users want to play with are in the HEAD via Subversion, you might think about easing the path to entry for the new user... Ain't this (http://cvs.apache.org/snapshots/cocoon-2.1/) easy enough? :) Vadim

RE: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-03 Thread Jeff Ramsdale
If all the cool features that users want to play with are in the HEAD via Subversion, you might think about easing the path to entry for the new user... Ain't this (http://cvs.apache.org/snapshots/cocoon-2.1/) easy enough? :) Vadim For a moment I was going to acquiesce, but then I

Re: Future build (was RE: [Vote] Releasing 2.1.1)

2003-09-03 Thread Miles Elam
Jeff Ramsdale wrote: I expect the average new Cocoon user is also a Windows user (though I could be wrong). So why are the snapshots not in .zip format? FYI: WinZip supports tar.gz files just fine. - Miles Elam