+1, I think the benefits in terms of preserving resources (and also environment-wise) outweigh the cost of downloading a specialized tool on windows for the users that need that because on an old windows.
Cheers -------------------------- Alessandro Benedetti Apache Lucene/Solr PMC member and Committer Director, R&D Software Engineer, Search Consultant www.sease.io On Sun, 16 Jan 2022 at 22:54, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 1/16/2022 2:58 PM, Mike Drob wrote: > > +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?) > > +1 > > To say that I'm a Windows user would not quite be accurate. Every place > I have actually deployed Solr has been on Linux. CentOS mostly, and > most recently on Ubuntu. I prefer the latter. > > My personal workstations have always been Windows. It's a path of least > resistance -- I'm very familiar with it, and most of the games I like to > play are only available for Windows. I have recently been using Ubuntu > Desktop on my primary work machine. And I have to say that I really > like it. It was easier to transition than I had imagined. I absolutely > love having linux commandline tools available on a workstation. > > With no zip, it will be a slight inconvenience for some Windows users, > but they do have tools available that can extract a tgz file. I wasn't > aware that tar had been added to Windows ... that's cool. I just > extracted the tgz on my Windows 10 desktop using it. And for users of > Windows versions that don't include tar, they can download a tool like > 7zip. > > Thanks, > Shawn > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@solr.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@solr.apache.org > >
