23 Oct
2008
23 Oct
'08
11:26 p.m.
on Thu Oct 23 2008, Eric Niebler <eric-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
I'd like to drop the .zip and .gz packages, starting with release 1.38.0.
Please, no. If you want to drop some some packages, I'd drop the .7z and .bz2. On Windows, .zip is standard ... on Vista, Explorer has built-in support for it. And on *nix, .gz is the de-facto standard. IMO, .7z and .bz2 are nice-to-have but not necessary, and certainly shouldn't be the only ones we provide.
I have to agree with Eric. Standards and familiarity are much more important than minimizing transfer size where barriers-to-entry are concerned, IMO. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com