Could we use something better than zip for the dmd package?
Elvis Presley
nottheking at baby.com
Thu Dec 22 09:06:54 PST 2011
Nick Sabalausky Wrote:
> "Jonathan M Davis" <jmdavisProg at gmx.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1834.1324571496.24802.digitalmars-d at 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 ?
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