I'm comfortable with it.
---- Cris J H
Eric Dalquist wrote:
I'm working on getting 3.0.1 ready for release. Are we all comfortable
with removing the .zip distributions?
-Eric
Andrew Petro wrote:
Cris,
I think that what you propose is a very good idea, especially if
accompanied by good documentation/hints/links in the download area of
the website along the lines of "Why is there no .zip file? How do I
open this files that are here?"
This would also help address the downsides of use of .zip formats on
platforms that would benefit by formats that retain permissions flags
on the extracted files, by simply preventing the use of the less-rich
.zip format.
One quick band-aid we could apply would be to slap a red warning box
on the download page warning folks about naively opening the .zip
distros in Windows.
http://www.uportal.org/download.html
However, I'd want to hear and give great weight to Eric Dalquist's
perspective, since he's most recently been closely involved in the
distribution build process automation.
Andrew
Cris J Holdorph wrote:
This is something I see all the time in addition to the number of
times it comes up on the list.
What do people think about the advantages/disadvantages of changing
our distribution format.
I know just about any other format would require someone to install a
tool they probably don't have on their box. But isn't that the crux
of the current problem? That they are trying to unarchive without
installing a new tool? So, what extra work would we really be adding?
By way of suggestion, what about either .tar.gz or 7-zip formats?
7-zip is a free and open source solution available for both windows,
linux and mac os. .tar.gz is also available quite easily on mac os x
and linux. I think 7-zip or winzip (shareware) will open .tar.gz files.
The other solution, that most other apps seem to take, is building
self-extracting archives (or install programs), so that the download
is either a .exe or .msi file.
---- Cris J H
Eric Dalquist wrote:
> One thing to keep in mind on Window is that the unzipping program
included in Window does not handle path names longer than 255
characters and therefor cannot be used to unzip uPortal. You will
need to find another unzip tool such as WinZip to extract uPortal on
Windows.
>
> '-Eric
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