+1 On Thu, 20 Jan, 2022, 8:28 am Timothy Potter, <thelabd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 from me as well. > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 7:47 PM Noble Paul <noble.p...@gmail.com> 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 <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 >> >
