Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:863 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 11165 invoked from network); 11 Apr 2003 16:54:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mta6-svc.business.ntl.com) (62.253.164.46) by pb1.pair.com with SMTP; 11 Apr 2003 16:54:12 -0000 Received: from p2q4w7 ([80.1.5.119]) by mta6-svc.business.ntl.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20030411165411.BBJK22800.mta6-svc.business.ntl.com@p2q4w7>; Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:54:11 +0100 Message-ID: <007b01c30053$7e2a68e0$77050150@p2q4w7> Reply-To: "Steph" To: "John Lim" Cc: References: <008c01c30046$05290170$1601a8c0@andreywin> <20030411164416.99933.qmail@pb1.pair.com> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 17:55:07 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: too much distributions on php.net From: sfox@php.net ("Steph") > Hi I have VisualC++ and compile PHP stuff and I don't have bzip > or whatever it is installed. Same as (cygwin notwithstanding). Anyone with winzip can open tar.gz's, which take up much less space than zip files.. but on the other hand, win32 users are just as likely to identify 'their' download by the .zip file extension if it's not otherwise marked. PHP is often the first introduction a windows user has to opensource projects, or indeed to src files. It's worth taking some time to think this through and not make it difficult for people to learn how software works, imho. (e.g. we could be clear about labelling a download as win32-friendly but make it tar.gz if space is an issue).