3 Apr
2005
3 Apr
'05
7:23 p.m.
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Magnus Olsen wrote:
Yes I have.
But zip are more common at people home.
Some people does not like rar.
The bast way are keeping both rar and zip
so people can choice what they like more.
While I haven't seen many projects that use RAR, it's definately
possible. 7-Zip supports the format, as well, or at least, it claims to
on it's website. People could be provided with a link to that, and they
can download/install that and use it to decompress things that are
compressed using RAR. I guess it would just come down to what
compresses better: 7-Zip or RAR?
Since there is free software for both (the 7-Zip application is LGPL),
it seems that it could be a viable choice. Also, with it being LGPL,
it's possible to choose it as a default archiver for ReactOS, as it
supports a decent number of formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP,
BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, and RPM/DEB files. It also claims to create .ZIP
files that are 2 - 10% better then ones created by WinZip and PKZip, and
like any good archiver, creates self extracting archives for it's own
format.
- From a user-standpoint in the States, it doesn't make much of a
difference to me. I have a 6 Mb connection at home, and a 1Gb+
connecton at work. However, if I were still on dialup, I'd say that
it'd be a good idea to keep with whatever is smallest. On 7-zip's home
page is some statistics. I don't have the time to download and try it
out myself with various formats to see what is the best, but I'd say it
would be worth it to run a complete comparison and see what wins out, or
just go with whatever formats are supported by 7-Zip since it's free.
- Mike
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