On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> James,
This is on the list, so I hope you don't mind me chipping in...
>
> What do you think about not having the ZIP files available for
> download?
>
> They are getting huge, while the .tgz files are much smaller. I
Is this a case for supporting bzip2, I wonder? It usually gives
better compression than gzip.
> believe WinZip adequately supports .tgz files now, so the only
It certainly seems to.
> possible need for .zip files is for people who have older Windows
> machines or Winzip programs that suck.
Some ftp severs could generate this kind of thing on the fly, if my
memory serves me correctly. The other thing is that the zip module
is included in the Windows dowload for Ruby, so would it be possible
to roll a ruby program to gunzip the files? I've not got as far as
attempting to document zip yet, (I've had problems with my release of
rdoc when trying to test out my attempts to doc MD5, so I've not
explored the zip module and don't know how to use it myself).
>
> I think on balance it would be good to get rid of the .zip files.
Is the pressure available disk space, up/dowload times, or soemthing
else? One of the nice things about ruby is its support of many
platforms, so excluding anyone seems to me to run counter to that.
>
> Anyone else?
>
> Gavin
Hugh
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