+1 from me as well - sorry this just escaped my notice initially.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 12:46 AM Ishan Chattopadhyaya <
[email protected]> wrote:

> +1
>
> On Thu, 20 Jan, 2022, 8:28 am Timothy Potter, <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> +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
>>>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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