From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: zip files of Windows builds of emacs Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:59:57 +0200 Message-ID: <01c50060$Blat.v2.4$e44f7480@zahav.net.il> References: <20050121204941.GG7194@gurthang.ne2.client2.attbi.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106385754 10193 80.91.229.6 (22 Jan 2005 09:22:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:22:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 22 10:22:26 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CsHTO-0007p0-00 for ; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 10:22:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CsHfU-0004aC-LM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 04:34:56 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CsHfS-0004Zx-Qi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 04:34:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CsHfS-0004Zl-A4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 04:34:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CsHZl-0003Vy-Qu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 04:29:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CsHBz-0000KS-FJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Jan 2005 04:04:27 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-83-130-252-165.inter.net.il [83.130.252.165]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id DOZ61590 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:04:12 +0200 (IST) Original-To: "Matthew M. Boedicker" X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: <20050121204941.GG7194@gurthang.ne2.client2.attbi.com> (mboedick@mboedick.org) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:10537 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:10537 > Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 15:49:41 -0500 > From: "Matthew M. Boedicker" > > It would be convenient if the Windows builds of emacs were distributed > (on the FTP site) as zip files instead of tar.gz's. The GNU FTP site has a program, called djtarnt.exe, that you can download and use for that. The file README should explain that. > Windows does not include anything that can unpack tar.gz's by > default, but it does include an unzipping utility. Not really true, as many Windows installations have WinZip, which supports .tar.gz archives. The problem with producing a .zip archive is that there's (AFAIK) no zip utility that is Free Software in the sense the GNU project uses that term. So the FSF doesn't want to produce a .zip archive so as not to promote non-Free software. Alternative measures, such as having djtarnt.exe on the FTP site, are supposed to help in solving this conundrum.