[Clipart] Use 7Zip for the Open Cliparts distribution

Daniel Carrera dcarrera at digitaldistribution.com
Sat Jun 11 06:01:06 PDT 2005


Nicu Buculei wrote:

>> The design of 7-Zip depends on the CPU being 
>> little-endian, so it would exclude PPC and Sparc,[snip]
> 
> are you sure?

Not anymore... ;-)

Hhmmm... Maybe things have changed since I last checked (or I checked 
wrong last time).

> Maybe the NSIS installer for Windows may be made to use 7-zip (instead 
> of whatever compression is using now), just like the installer for 
> OpenOffice.org.

NSIS already uses LZMA compression. Yet another reason why NSIS beats 
MSI :-)

Cheers,
Daniel.



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