On Oct 23, 2008, at 8:28 AM, John Maddock wrote:
Beman Dawes wrote:
Boost releases are currently packaged four ways.
The problem I see is that CR/NL users still download .zip files twice as often as .7z, and NL users still download about as many .gz packages as bz2.
That seems to be a good argument against the change, while most Linux distro's have bz2, 7z has rather less machine penetration I suspect. I also believe that many commercial *nix distro's don't have bz2 support as standard?
I would like to second John here if I am allowed (being more or less new to the list). I usually go with the .gz version on Windows as well....although it would not matter as far as I know since there is no built-in support for neither .gz nor bz2 anyway (I am using a different explorer which has built-in capabilities for .zip/.gz) However, I certainly understand the extra burden this puts on the release manager. Ciao, Andreas