+0 I have no issue with this, but would maybe like to see a discussion on the user@ list first and to hear the thoughts of our Windows users (Uwe? Steve? Shawn?)
On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 1:08 PM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I know that ZIP vs TGZ has been discussed before, but I'd like to propose > that we ditch the Solr ZIP artifacts for the 9.0 release. > Below is a plot of downloads > <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vgiwvs7mVv-ARNWoO4b9KcJjrGuK1cn-Mzeq0crJk_M/edit?usp=sharing> > from > DLCDN last 3 months, where we see that the zip artifact now constitutes > only 9% of the downloads. > > As the tar utility ships with Windows since several years, and users are > well aware of the format, I see no reason to keep publishing the ZIP. > We can simplify the release, speed up the smoketester and save the > environment, all at the same time :-) > > Here is my +1 > >
