Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-13 Thread Angel Marin
Michael Schurter escribió: Steve Deobald wrote: It's also Windows-only and uses a proprietary RAR plugin, as far as I know. 7-zip is very much cross-platform compatible. NSIS uses it (and it works in Linux), and Debian even has packages for it in Etch. Well that's p7zip[1] not 7-zip :)

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-13 Thread Atsushi Eno
Guys, I don't think we are interested in which compression format is most efficient for compression. Only popular, *really* popular ones such as tar.gz, tar.bz2 or zip would be the choice(s). (What I practically mean is, it is being so off-topic.) Atsushi Eno Angel Marin wrote: Michael

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-13 Thread Wade Berrier
Raja has fixed the files that were causing the issues with 'make dist', so I've reverted back to using 'make dist' instead of 'make dist-zip'. Wade On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 13:06 -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Several have reported that the tarballs available from mono.ximian.com/daily are not

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-12 Thread Steve Deobald
Rar isn't very free software friendly. On 11/10/06, John Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Yes, it is much worse... 20MB to 32MB :( Have you tried rar? ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-12 Thread Michael Schurter
Steve Deobald wrote: Rar isn't very free software friendly. 7-zip is, but its not very widespread yet. http://7-zip.org/ -- Michael Schurter ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-12 Thread Steve Deobald
It's also Windows-only and uses a proprietary RAR plugin, as far as I know. On 11/12/06, Michael Schurter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Deobald wrote: Rar isn't very free software friendly. 7-zip is, but its not very widespread yet. http://7-zip.org/ -- Michael Schurter

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-12 Thread Michael Schurter
Steve Deobald wrote: It's also Windows-only and uses a proprietary RAR plugin, as far as I know. 7-zip is very much cross-platform compatible. NSIS uses it (and it works in Linux), and Debian even has packages for it in Etch. 7z, as well as a number of other open source tools, can decompress

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-10 Thread Atsushi Eno
Hi, I think zip archive for text files is much worse than tgz at compression. How was the difference? Atsushi Eno Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Several have reported that the tarballs available from mono.ximian.com/daily are not buildable. This is caused by some limitations of the tar format

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-10 Thread Wade Berrier
Hi, Yes, it is much worse... 20MB to 32MB :( Wade On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 06:24 +0900, Atsushi Eno wrote: Hi, I think zip archive for text files is much worse than tgz at compression. How was the difference? Atsushi Eno Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Several have reported that the

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-10 Thread Atsushi Eno
Hmm... is it difficult to produce both zip and tar.gz (or.bz2) ? Atsushi Eno Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Yes, it is much worse... 20MB to 32MB :( Wade On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 06:24 +0900, Atsushi Eno wrote: Hi, I think zip archive for text files is much worse than tgz at compression.

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-10 Thread John Anderson
Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Yes, it is much worse... 20MB to 32MB :( Have you tried rar? ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list