Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-13 Thread Angel Marin
Michael Schurter escribió: Steve Deobald wrote: It's also Windows-only and uses a proprietary RAR plugin, as far as I know. 7-zip is very much cross-platform compatible. NSIS uses it (and it works in Linux), and Debian even has packages for it in Etch. Well that's p7zip[1] not 7-zip :)

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-13 Thread Atsushi Eno
Guys, I don't think we are interested in which compression format is most efficient for compression. Only popular, *really* popular ones such as tar.gz, tar.bz2 or zip would be the choice(s). (What I practically mean is, it is being so off-topic.) Atsushi Eno Angel Marin wrote: Michael

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-13 Thread Wade Berrier
Raja has fixed the files that were causing the issues with 'make dist', so I've reverted back to using 'make dist' instead of 'make dist-zip'. Wade On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 13:06 -0700, Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Several have reported that the tarballs available from mono.ximian.com/daily are not

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-12 Thread Steve Deobald
Rar isn't very free software friendly. On 11/10/06, John Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Yes, it is much worse... 20MB to 32MB :( Have you tried rar? ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-12 Thread Michael Schurter
Steve Deobald wrote: Rar isn't very free software friendly. 7-zip is, but its not very widespread yet. http://7-zip.org/ -- Michael Schurter ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-12 Thread Steve Deobald
It's also Windows-only and uses a proprietary RAR plugin, as far as I know. On 11/12/06, Michael Schurter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Deobald wrote: Rar isn't very free software friendly. 7-zip is, but its not very widespread yet. http://7-zip.org/ -- Michael Schurter

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-12 Thread Michael Schurter
Steve Deobald wrote: It's also Windows-only and uses a proprietary RAR plugin, as far as I know. 7-zip is very much cross-platform compatible. NSIS uses it (and it works in Linux), and Debian even has packages for it in Etch. 7z, as well as a number of other open source tools, can decompress

[Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-10 Thread Wade Berrier
Hi, Several have reported that the tarballs available from mono.ximian.com/daily are not buildable. This is caused by some limitations of the tar format we're using. We must use this limited format to support some older distros. To alleviate this I've begun to use the zip file format for the

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-10 Thread Atsushi Eno
Hi, I think zip archive for text files is much worse than tgz at compression. How was the difference? Atsushi Eno Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Several have reported that the tarballs available from mono.ximian.com/daily are not buildable. This is caused by some limitations of the tar format

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-10 Thread Wade Berrier
Hi, Yes, it is much worse... 20MB to 32MB :( Wade On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 06:24 +0900, Atsushi Eno wrote: Hi, I think zip archive for text files is much worse than tgz at compression. How was the difference? Atsushi Eno Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Several have reported that the

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-10 Thread Atsushi Eno
Hmm... is it difficult to produce both zip and tar.gz (or.bz2) ? Atsushi Eno Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Yes, it is much worse... 20MB to 32MB :( Wade On Sat, 2006-11-11 at 06:24 +0900, Atsushi Eno wrote: Hi, I think zip archive for text files is much worse than tgz at compression.

Re: [Mono-dev] Mono Daily Downloads

2006-11-10 Thread John Anderson
Wade Berrier wrote: Hi, Yes, it is much worse... 20MB to 32MB :( Have you tried rar? ___ Mono-devel-list mailing list Mono-devel-list@lists.ximian.com http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list