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

[Michael B. Trausch]

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Magnus Olsen wrote:
> Yes I have.
> But zip are more common at people home. 
> Some people does not like rar. 
> 
> The bast way are keeping both rar and zip 
> so people can choice what they like more. 
> 

While I haven't seen many projects that use RAR, it's definately
possible.  7-Zip supports the format, as well, or at least, it claims to
on it's website.  People could be provided with a link to that, and they
can download/install that and use it to decompress things that are
compressed using RAR.  I guess it would just come down to what
compresses better:  7-Zip or RAR?

Since there is free software for both (the 7-Zip application is LGPL),
it seems that it could be a viable choice.  Also, with it being LGPL,
it's possible to choose it as a default archiver for ReactOS, as it
supports a decent number of formats: 7z, ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP,
BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, and RPM/DEB files.  It also claims to create .ZIP
files that are 2 - 10% better then ones created by WinZip and PKZip, and
like any good archiver, creates self extracting archives for it's own
format.

- From a user-standpoint in the States, it doesn't make much of a
difference to me.  I have a 6 Mb connection at home, and a 1Gb+
connecton at work.  However, if I were still on dialup, I'd say that
it'd be a good idea to keep with whatever is smallest.  On 7-zip's home
page is some statistics.  I don't have the time to download and try it
out myself with various formats to see what is the best, but I'd say it
would be worth it to run a complete comparison and see what wins out, or
just go with whatever formats are supported by 7-Zip since it's free.

	- Mike

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