Re: Compress php packages with 7zip

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 08:53, Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. Apparently Pierre disagrees with me here. Please file a bug report (http://bugs.php.net/report.php) regarding this issue, and I'll make sure Pierre takes a look. -Hannes