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[Chris Oliver <excid3@xxxxxxxxx>]

It's not a lot of trouble, but it sure makes our download page messy, and
I'd really like to keep things clean. Right now our project is kind of a
mess. :P

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 9:10 PM, mac9416 <mac9416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I agree on the tarball issue. Having two options doesn't really make
> sense, and zip is the format supported by both OSes.
> On the other hand, it's not a lot of trouble to have both options.
> Whichever way we do it will be fine.
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Chris Oliver <excid3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm prepping for another release of 0.92 this weekend it looks like with
> > romaimperator. We're hoping to solve the issue with the binary on 32bit
> > Ubuntu and hopefully get out proper separate builds for Linux and Windows
> > that don't cause issue. After that we will be moving on to 1.0 and
> tackling
> > things as speedy as we can in hopes of getting it out soon.
> > What I really am interested in hearing your thoughts on though is
> download
> > formats. Right now we package each release into a tarball AND zipfile. I
> > don't see a reason for this. Ubuntu can extra zip's by default, so the
> > tarball is just typically preference. It's completely unnecessary imo.
> > Windows users can't use it, and for our next release, we will have the
> > following:
> > Single file binary for Linux
> > Single file binary
> > Debian package for Linux (built on launchpad hopefully using quickly)
> > Source tarball? (maybe, but they can just download the source with bazaar
> > easy enough)
> > Does this make sense? I want to make sure I'm not forgetting anything
> > important. :-)
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Chris Oliver
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