Nick Sabalausky Wrote: > "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisp...@gmx.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.1834.1324571496.24802.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > > On Thursday, December 22, 2011 06:25:42 a wrote: > >> Why are you ignoring the statement about 7z having the same > >> accessibility > >> level as rar? Rar files are not rare and users who can open rar files (on > >> Windows usually with WinRAR or 7zip) can also open 7z files. > > > > But not without installing 3rd party software. Windows can handle zip > > files out > > of the box. It can't handle the others. rar would have exactly the same > > problem as 7z files (though from what I've see rar files are much more > > commonly > > used). We _could_ use a file format other than zip, but then we'd be > > requiring > > that the user download a 3rd party app just to be able to open the file, > > which > > is _not_ the case with zip. > > > > Once again: > > 1. "If you're a programmer, or even just a power user, you have absolutely > no > excuse not to *already* have a 7z-capable program [EDIT: such as WinRAR, for > instance] installed." > > 2. "What the hell programmer is limited to whatever archive support just > happens to be > built into Windows?" > > Even *in addition* to all of that, the built-in windows support for zip is > *extremely* dummy^H^H^H^H^Haverage-Joe -oriented. Page after page of > hand-holding "wizard" *just* to "extract here"? I can't imagine any > programmer or power user even being capable of putting up with that for more > than a few days before finally just grabbing WinRAR, etc. And I'm not just > speculating: Honestly, I've never even known *one* programmer or power user > who actually used Windows's built-in zip support. > >
I like Nicks rant. I'll add my own: Fucking self extracting 7-zip! Easier than dumb zip on windows. Or it is not kosher by D's way ?
