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 Why an outdated and inefficient ZIP format, after all? 7zip is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.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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