[Clipart] Use 7Zip for the Open Cliparts distribution
Daniel Carrera
dcarrera at digitaldistribution.com
Sat Jun 11 11:23:54 PDT 2005
Mourad Mokrane wrote:
> I think that spreading the 7z format would be a good idea at
> least because of one thing: it is open source.
So is zip and tar.gz :-)
What 7z has going for it is a nice compression ratio. Historically this
has been hampered by being bound to Windows, but it seems that might
have changed recently.
> The main idea of Openclipart is the same, so I thing that
> hosting a 7z version of the package would fit in that philosophy.
> Of course keeping the other formats is a must.
All the other formats we use are just as open. And in a way, they're
more open because they are also standard. As much as I love the cool
LZMA algorithm, open-ness is not a reason to use it.
Cheers,
Daniel.
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