From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Emacs 22.2.91 pretest Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:25:01 -0700 Message-ID: <000a01c90861$751e4de0$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <87vdxnqza2.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <48B56BFA.6000404@gnu.org> <000801c90859$13507000$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <48B5729A.5080004@gnu.org> <000901c9085f$a9341d50$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> <48B57DE4.1040105@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219854354 16986 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2008 16:25:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:25:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, 'Jason Rumney' To: "'Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 27 18:26:48 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYNqc-0003vY-HV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:26:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48620 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYNpe-0002rA-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:25:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYNpa-0002qC-Oi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYNpY-0002oy-RH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:25:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55701 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYNpY-0002os-MQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:50774) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYNpS-0003Fy-Um; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m7RGP2LR019518; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:25:03 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt700.oracle.com (acsmt700.oracle.com [141.146.40.70]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m7RGP2ei024916; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:25:02 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:25:01 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <48B57DE4.1040105@gmail.com> Thread-Index: AckIYIlKPvMsy9H7RfyP+SJrNqYX9wAACiHA X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103027 Archived-At: > Yes, on windows zip files are better than *.tar.gz files. > However if you need to handle *.tar.gz files then 7-zip > is much better than WinZip (or at least WinZip was not > good at this, I have not been using it for a > very long time now). Sure, but many Windows users will likely use WinZip. If this is a WinZip issue and not an Emacs packaging issue, then we can perhaps advise people who use WinZip to right-click and save to disk, renaming the file from .tar.tar to .tar.gz. Or we can perhaps advise Windows users to use an alternative to WinZip, such as 7-zip. And mention why. But without telling them something, I'm guessing that at least some Windows users will run into a problem. And perhaps some will give up.