Re: Re: too much distributions on php.net

Why the windows ppl will need the bz2 while only the sources are bz2-ed. How many are the ppl out there who have Visual C and want to compile PHP? So bz2 for sources, since bz2 can be decompressed on all linuxes and probably most unices. zip for the windows binary distribution. Andrey ----- Original Message ----- From: "SHEETS,JASON (HP-Boise,ex1)" <jason.sheets@hp.com> To: "'Tom Sommer'" <webmaster@tsn.dk>; <internals@lists.php.net> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 7:15 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Re: too much distributions on php.net > I've placed a request with WinZip to support BZ2, they said they would send > it to the developers so it will probably never happen but one could wish. > > A .gz file as well as a .bz2 file would work, WinZip supports gzip well. > Most users I know will not go looking for a program to decompress a file > assuming they even know how to do that. > > The Unix people already are aware of BZ2 but most Windows users are not :) > > Jason > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Sommer [mailto:webmaster@tsn.dk] > Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 10:09 AM > To: internals@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP-DEV] Re: too much distributions on php.net > > > On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 12:02:20 -0400, Colin Viebrock wrote: > > > My Mac and Windows copies of Stuffit Expander handle .bz2 files. > > WinZip doesn't. And there are lots of bzip apps for Windows. > > Winrar works with bz2, not very well... but it works > > I think we need a .zip for windows and a .gz and/or .bz2 for Linux > > If a windows newbie goes to the download page and sees only a .bz2 > available, he'll get extremely confused :) > > The .zip is sort of mandatory, IMO :) > -- > Tom Sommer, Denmark > www.tsn.dk - www.dreamcoder.dk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >