Re: pear installer
| From: | Anil Madhavapeddy | Date: | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:45:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: pear installer | ||
| Groups: | php.pear | ||
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Quoting Martin Jansen <mj@php.net>:
>
> I've never seen and never heard of such a problem on Win32.
> But may be I'm wrong. IMO we should take .tar.gz because it's
> properly supported by winzip and some other programs, so that
> we can say, that _nearly_ every win32 user can extract the
> files with very low effort.
It does happen; some early versions of both browsers renamed all
the dots except the last to underscores, for some reason, and
then presented that file. Very annoying.
.tgz and .tbz (for bzip) are pretty common for package extensions,
and simple and well recognized. All the *BSD port trees use those
to represent their packages.
--
Anil Madhavapeddy, <anil@recoil.org>