Why not both ? They have different goals. We may recommend good open source free tools. On Windows I would recommend 7-zip !
Jacques De : "Jacopo Cappellato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Jonathon, > > Jonathon -- Improov wrote: > > Jacques is right. > > > > The best way was already suggested by the creator of this thread. And > > that is to publish a tarball of a SVN workspace. Downloaders will need > > to install SVN, of course. > > > > I'm not sure if the 'tarball' of a complete svn workspace (i.e. "svn > checkout" instead of "svn export") is good idea, at least as the primary > download file: > > 1) the file is bigger > 2) in the past, I had some problems in extracting big files (i.e. an > Opentaps tarball) containing svn folders: the process was really very > slow (the number of files to extract is huge when you include svn > folders); this was probably caused by a bad unzip software (or bad > hardware) but we should consider this > > Jacopo > > > And when we have time or bandwidth, we can also publish a non-SVN > > version (generated with svn export). > > > > I think it's nice (as a new OFBiz user) to be guided or prompted to use > > SVN. Version control concepts are curiously sorely lacking even among > > many IT professionals. > > > > Jonathon > > > > Adam Heath wrote: > >> Jacques Le Roux wrote: > >>> Not everybody use Debian > >> > >> This is true; We have use for rpms, as a few of our clients host their > >> own hardware/software, and they use rpm-based systems. However, we have > >> no experience creating rpm packages, so haven't done this. > >> > >> The debian packaging itself could be used as a basis for other packaging > >> systems. I've already committed all the patches I had to do to make it > >> work in debian. > >> > >> > >
