[Clipart] Use 7Zip for the Open Cliparts distribution

Jon Phillips jon at rejon.org
Fri Jun 10 15:48:48 PDT 2005


On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 17:10 -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> The problem with 7-Zip is that it only runs on Windows. So using it 
> would leave out GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and all Unix.

Yeah, so I would say that we should not support this new compression
format in favor of our current ones. However, if someone wants to
provide a 7zip version of our repository, I wouldn't be opposed to
hosting this. Others?

Jon

> momo wrote:
> > It's a nice idea, but then there also should be a link to 7-zip.org on 
> > the website so people can download the 7zip software to unpack files in 
> > .7z format.
> > I'm a longtime user of 7-zip and it's a very nice piece of software that 
> > I would recommend to everyone!
> > 
> > Mo.
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