[Owncloud] owncloud download level of entry: tar.bz -> zip

Philip Taffner sabel at altmuehlnet.de
Mon Mar 18 14:47:43 UTC 2013


LOL

Am 18.03.2013 15:44, schrieb Bernhard Posselt:
> Easy solution: install ubuntu in a vm and share a directory. Extract the
> bzip in ubuntu and then the contents are available in windows.
> 
> On 03/18/2013 03:40 PM, Christophe M wrote:
>>
>> Windows is an obstacle for people using a computer, stop blaming file
>> format :p
>>
>> El 18/03/2013 13:31, "Pascal d'Hermilly" <pascal at dhermilly.dk
>> <mailto:pascal at dhermilly.dk>> escribió:
>>
>>     I was a bit supprised to see that the official download of OC5 is
>>     in TAR BZIP format since Owncloud has always tried to keep a low
>>     level of entry for new deployments.
>>     This means an extra obstacle for many people running windows, (mac
>>     also?)
>>     If the download was in zip this obstacle would not be present.
>>     The compression ratio is a little lower.
>>     not compressed=43,7 MB
>>     Tar.bz=13,2 MB
>>     Zip=17,8 MB
>>
>>     I think tar.bz <http://tar.bz> gives some head aches to some
>>     people that we can avoid by using zip.
>>
>>     Just a heads up.
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