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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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