Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:857 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 82529 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2003 16:19:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO jedi.webgate.bg) (212.50.2.189) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 2003 16:19:00 -0000 Received: from andreywin (nik.office.webgate.bg [192.168.1.22]) by jedi.webgate.bg (8.12.9/8.9.3) with SMTP id h3BGOoWH023427; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:24:50 +0300 Message-ID: <008c01c30046$05290170$1601a8c0@andreywin> To: "SHEETS,JASON \(HP-Boise,ex1\)" Cc: References: Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:18:42 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: too much distributions on php.net From: andrey@webgate.bg ("Andrey Hristov") 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)" To: "'Tom Sommer'" ; 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 >