Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
I don't think it's a good choice for our public downloads, the avarage user most likely will not know this format. zip still is THE standard.
Best Regards, Thomas
What if we did something like cygwin where they just download a small setup program which then will ask them what kinds of packages they want, and download those, in 7zip format, and then decompress and install them?
Self-extracting with 7zip?
not really a good idea when you don't know which operating system the user runs.
Self extracting zips are fine for windows users, that way they don't have to download the program separately. For people on other platforms, they can just download the 7-zip program and use that to extract the SFX. Those who would have to do this ( Linux users ) I think are more than capable of doing so.
I think what Jokob meant was to have a ZIP with zero compression (which'll work like Tar) and zip that collection. The ZIP format basically compresses each individual files them binds them together.
Essentially that's a workaround to get winzip to create a solid archive. That helps some, but not very much, and makes it more annoying to unpack. A self extracting 7-zip archive would be significantly smaller, and easier to unpack than a zip in zip.