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
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
--- 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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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