My argument for not providing the ZIP this time around was exactly what Petr
just said, size, and the knowledge that on any common system that people are
likely to have, they can handle a .tar.gz.
I am currently finding out if there are any special circumstances warranting
a ZIP release. If not, I will probably put a Readme up in the "dist" folder
with a descriptive name, explaining why you don't need a ZIP.
In any case, I'll bet that this particular case is one of a person just not
knowing what a tarball is. Ironically, once they download it, they could
double-click it and unpackage with WinZip just as easy as if it was ZIP, and
they wouldn't even know the difference. Because I'll guarantee this is a
person on Windows.
Regards,
Arved Sandstrom
At 06:40 PM 7/10/01 -0500, Weiqi Gao wrote:
>On 10 Jul 2001 23:11:30 +0200, Petr Andrs wrote:
>>
>> Why? tar.gz is much smaller and does the job as well.
>>
>> Pier P. Fumagalli wrote:
>> >
>> > ------ Forwarded Message
>> > From: Joy Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:29:07 -0400
>> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Subject: FOP 19 zip file
>> >
>> > Could you please put in the download section a zip file for
>> > the new FOP 19 like you did for 18.
>
>You cannot untar a tar file created by GNU tar with any other tar
>command, for example the Solaris tar command, if there are files whose
>pathname exceeds 100 characters.
>
>For people who know this, the solution is right there, install GNU tar,
>or untar it on another machine with GNU tar, and move the directory
>structure over.
>
>For people who doesn't know this, it could be quite frustating. They
>usually redo the download several times before realizing the problem
>lies elsewhere.
>
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>Weiqi Gao
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