2010/11/30 Dmitriy Sintsov <[email protected]>: > * Bryan Tong Minh <[email protected]> [Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:44:43 > +0100]: >> I think that the most recent version should be sufficient. I don't >> think Java would break backwards compatibility: users wouldn't be >> happy if their old jar suddenly stops working on a new JVM. >> > Why an outdated and inefficient ZIP format, after all? 7zip is > incompatible to JVM, should it be a better choice for archive uploads? > Or, that is too hard to parse on PHP side (I gueses console exec is > required)? We don't necessarily want ZIP uploads at Wikimedia, but it's not unreasonable to want to upload OpenOffice documents. Since the OO formats are ZIP-like, blocking ZIPs blocks those too.
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