[Sugar-devel] Bundle format

[Simon Schampijer]

On 11/23/2010 01:47 PM, Walter Bender wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de>  wrote:
>>
>> On 23.11.2010, at 05:07, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:53 -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
>>>> (oh, and the .zip file already has a checksum, it's not clear why
>>>> you'd need another one.)
>>>
>>> Ah, cool... but I guess it's not a cryptographically secure one, right?
>>>
>>> Plus, I was thinking... shouldn't we support a bundle format with better
>>> compression than zip? My favorite pick would be tar + xz, but if we want
>>> to retain the file-by-file accessibility of zip, 7z would also work
>>> well.
>>
>> IMHO the gains to be had from a slightly smaller download do not outweigh the ubiquity of the zip format. No other archive format is as widely supported. It can easily be examined and created on any platform.
>
> +1

Yes, keeping the zip format sounds desired to me as well. Widely 
supported, the same that other projects like open office use for 
archiving, too.

Regards,
    Simon