On 03/09/2013 09:05 AM, Thomas Dinges wrote: > Hi everybody, > I'd like to drop .zip archives for our windows releases. > > At the moment we provide .exe (Installer version) and .zip and .7z > (Extract & Run version). > > Pros: > * .7z archive is much smaller than .zip, saving traffic and also faster > for people to download. > * .7z format is open and supported by different programs: 7-Zip, WinZip, > WinRar. > > Cons: > * Windows does not support .7z out of the box, needs third party app > like 7-zip. > > I understand that the one con is a problem in theory, but in practise > most people have a third party app installed, whether it's 7-Zip, WinZip > etc. > Windows only supports .zip archives, so without a third party app, > people can not uncompress/compress .rar, 7-zip, .tar etc... > Asking people to install 7-Zip shouldn't be a problem, 7-Zip is free > software (LGPL) and only 1 megabyte large. http://7-zip.org/ > > Anyway, I don't think we should keep 3x different types of binaries (*2 > for the architecture) for Windows, as for Mac and Linux we also only > provide one for each bitness. > > Best regards, > Thomas >
Hi I am one of those Win users who prefer an archive over installer. In that respect I think that a self containted .exe is perfectly one(indicated clearly). One can also use 7zip itself to open the self contained exe as a compressed file. The only thing that can get in way is the permissions/virus app issues with .exe files. So providing a .7z along with the exe is a viable solution in my view. k _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers