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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: too much distributions on php.net
From: heyjohnlim@yahoo.com ("John Lim")

Hi I have VisualC++ and compile PHP stuff and I don't have bzip
or whatever it is installed.

"Andrey Hristov" <andrey@webgate.bg> wrote in message
news:008c01c30046$05290170$1601a8c0@andreywin...
> 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 :)
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