I downloaded the tar.bz2 to see if it could be extracted on Windows using available tools.
The WinZip I use (admittedly an old version) does not recognize it. 7z recognizes the bz2 and will decompress it as the .tar file. 7z will then also extract the .tar if used again in a separate step. The result from WinZip extraction of the .zip and the z7 two-step extraction consists of 60,955 files in 6,420 folders beneath the top-level 4.1.2/ folder either way. I know that WinZip will do a one-step extraction of a .tar.gz if that extension is changed to .tgz. I haven't determined if there is a similar modification for .tar.bz2 and whether or not 7z supports that and .tgz. Note that none of these exercises involved reliance on CygWin or anything similar, such as MSYS2. I did not use any command-line versions of the tools. - Dennis > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2015 15:08 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: [PROPOSAL] Distribute only one source package > > We currently distribute 3 source packages at > https://archive.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.1.2/source/ > 1) A .tar.bz2 file (209 MBytes) > 2) A .tar.gz file (276 Mbytes) > 3) A ZIP file (323 MBytes) > > The packages are equivalent, so any one would suffice. > > As discussed by Regina and Juergen recently, we ship #3 as a convenience > for Windows users but this leads to broken file permissions, so the > recommendation for Windows users is to use #1 or #2, which makes #3 > useless. > > I suggest, subject to lazy consensus, that we only distribute #1, i.e., > the .tar.bz2 file. > > Reasons: > * If we distribute one source package, it will be clear that we are all > testing and approving the same one > * .tar.bz2 offer better compression than .tar.gz > * bzip2 is ubiquitous today, so I don't believe that there are systems > capable of building OpenOffice which don't have bzip2 available > * better compression formats exist, but they are not as widely supported > as the three we are using now, so I'd stick with bzip2 > > This of course doesn't apply to 4.1.2, which is already released and > will remain available in all three formats. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
