+1 I think every platform can support .tgz. This is one less artifact to upload during releases
On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:38 AM Jan Høydahl <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: > I don't want to do this without a bit more support than three +1 and one > +0. > Asking user's list would likely trigger a response from some of those 9% > using ZIP today who don't want to change scripts. > But I'm more looking for technical arguments that are important but have > slipped our minds. > We can of course add some extra docs to README and Ref-Guide about how to > untar on Windows. > > Jan > > 17. jan. 2022 kl. 12:07 skrev Alessandro Benedetti <a.benede...@sease.io>: > > +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 >> >> > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul
