Re: Compress php packages with 7zip
| From: | Hannes Magnusson | Date: | Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:53:59 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Compress php packages with 7zip | ||
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On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:11, Kendall <kendall15@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is just a suggest since it would help people like me who are still on
> dial up. You may want to give the option to let people download (for at
> least the windows version since 7zip only have a gui on windows) the php
> package in 7zip format since I download php-5.2.6-Win32.zip which is 9.29 mb
> and if I compress with with 7zip zip it is only 5.48mb, which for people
> like me that are still on slow internet that would be great. Just a
> suggestion and I hope I sent this to the right email address.
I don't see that happening in the near future.
The Windows downloads are way to overwhelming as they are now, adding
more compression formats will make it even more complicated for
"regular joe" to decide what to download.
-Hannes