On 21/06/2008, Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 05:53:21PM +0300, Jukka Zitting wrote: > > Personally, I think it's entirely up to the project to decide in which > > formats they want to make their releases available. Do you really need > > a zip, or are you asking for it just because of convention? Or more > > generally (and mostly to couchdb-dev@), are there potential CouchDB > > users who would be better served by a release in zip format? > > > From http://incubator.apache.org/guides/releasemanagement.html > > Though utilities for all major compression formats are available for all > major > platforms, not all platforms support all major compression formats by > default. Users find it convenient to download the distribution compressed > in a > familiar format that is easy to decompress on their platform. It is > therefore > recommended that each type of distribution is shipped in a variety of > compressed > formats. Ship at least one of tar.gz, bz or bz2 for UNIX and linux (but note > this). Ship zip for windows. > > CouchDB does not currently support Windows, so providing a zip seems > redundant. >
OK, in that case I agree, the Zip is not essential. > > -- > > Noah Slater, http://people.apache.org/~nslater/ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
