> Well, the issue is not so much one of download bandwidth as it is one > of accessibility. Everyone has gzip, not everyone has 7z (yet). > > I would rather not have multiple compression formats on the download > site, nor require that people have 7z in order to be able to unpack > our release CDs!
This is the 'bandwagon' I was referring to --- it's a chicken and egg problem. I can safely say I would rarely be using gzip or bzip2 if 7z were in the base installs of all Linux/BSD releases. No one uses "compress" any more because gzip/bzip2 are in the base. If they weren't, you'd still see .Z files everywhere. Best Regards, Ben Cadieux