+1 from me as well. On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 7:47 PM Noble Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> +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 <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected] >> >: >> >> +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 <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >> > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------- > Noble Paul >
