[ros-dev] Ros 0.2.6-RC2 on sf.net

João Jerónimo Barata de Oliveira j_j_b_o_j at yahoo.com.br
Sun Apr 3 01:03:30 CEST 2005


Mike Swanson wrote:

>I'd rather go with a free compression scheme like gzip, bzip, or
>7-Zip. RAR is too buggy on GNU/Linux...
>

I think it would be a good idea to provide cdrom image, binaries and
source in various formats because:
 - zip opens in many platforms, however it has a bad compression tax,
and is proprietary...
 - 7-zip is a very good compression format, but it doesn't open on
Linux/Unix...
 - (tar.)bzip2 is also very good but it is special for Unix/Linux!
 - RAR has a better compression that zip, but it is proprietary...

Why don't you provide it both in 7-zip and in bzip2?

João Jerónimo



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