14 Apr
2005
14 Apr
'05
3:43 a.m.
Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
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 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. 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.