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| Project: | Drupal.org infrastructure |
| Component: | Packaging |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed (duplicate) |
Issue Summary
Hi all,
I'm asking this more as a query for other than myself. I'm a Linux user (Fedora, for my sins) so for me the gzip format of packages is fine, but given the recent attempts for Drupal 7 to remove potential barriers to entry for newbies in the language/UI/etc. it seems odd to me that the Drupal packager gzips everything!
It came up on Twitter today. A newbie on Windows complaining that *just to get started* they needed to install 7-zip to unpack the files.
I think this is a fair criticism. Since the majority of potential users will be Windows based and Windows does not (to the best of my knowledge) natively handle gzip files, should the Drupal packager not make zip files instead?
AFAIK this would be a fairly trivial change. What I *don't* know is if there are other, bigger reasons (e.g. perhaps licensing?) why the zip format would not be acceptable?
Just wondering really...
Comments
#1
I'd like to second the question.
#2
Thanks for taking the time to submit an issue. I believe this is a duplicate of #11416: Please provide *.zip downloads..
Please consider if this is a duplicate. If not, you can mark this issue as active again.
When submitting a new issue it's always good practice to search for an existing issue first.
#3
From seanr1978 on Twitter:
Fair point. You wouldn't pull the plug on gzip, but disk space is (relatively) cheap, so providing both would be sensible, licensing permitting.
#4
Sorry - is a dupe. I did search but searching for "drupal zip packages" etc. makes it tough to find, as I'm sure you can appreciate! Accidental status change - setting back.