Aug 25
Considering it’s not very complicated to make zlib or bzip2 compressed disk images from the command line, and that doing so should be trivial for a developer, why do developers distribute disk images that are zipped subsequent to image creation? Is there a reason I’m not aware of?
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August 25th, 2006 at 9:10 am
Probably habit.
The same reason why files “For Mac Users” are compressed in the .sit format, even though .zip decompression is part of Mac OS X.
August 25th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
That’s kinda what I thought. I’d like to see more use of bzip2 also because it’s compression rates seem to generally be better than zip.