The user didn't have the ability to install 7zip? On 26 Jan 2017 9:35 AM, "Karl Berry" <k...@freefriends.org> wrote:
> Please make gzip releases in some non-gzip/xz/lzip/bzip form, that is, > uncompressed or .zip. > > I and a colleague just had to waste time explaining to a user how to > download an old version available as .tar, compile it, and then use that > to install the new version. (No, evidently he had no binary. Whatever ...) > > It costs nothing to make the releases available in another format than > .tar.*z, so ... ok? .zip would probably be best, to placate the > Windows world, but anything would be better than nothing. --thanks, karl. > > > >