-----Original Message----- From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.com [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.com] On Behalf Of Aleksey Bragin Sent: 3. april 2005 12:19 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Ros 0.2.6-RC2 on sf.net
Providing .rar is actually far better than providing only .zip, since people usually value their money.
If you think .rar isn't widespread enough (though it's popularity almost equals Zip's one), then it's wise to provide both archives - but I don't see really a purpose for this. Download one time free rar unpacker tool - and spend twice less on downloading sourcecode.
Anyway we can see what people prefer better - do it with .zip and with .rar, and sourceforge shows us the statistics for the most downloadable file :-)
WBR, Aleksey.
The minimum tool dependency policy works great for us and I think we should stick to it. It's not just a one time download of an unrar application and be done with it. Each user must locate, download, and install this unrar tool on each machine that does not have it installed already. This is a manual process. At least with zip there is a higher chance that the user need only to download the archive. Even if it takes longer then, once the download is initiated, the user can go do something else in the meantime. We want to attract new users to this project and one large factor in doing this successfully is to make it as easy to use ReactOS as possible.
ReactOS is GPL, so anyone that wants to put in the effort can repackage the releases and put them up for download.
Casper