[Clipart] Use 7Zip for the Open Cliparts distribution

[Jon Phillips]

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 10:32 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 10:20:30AM -0400, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> > Bryce Harrington <bryce at bryceharrington.com> writes:
> > 
> > >    * Is this format sufficiently widespread to be of actual use?
> > >      (Too many options can make things more confusing for users)
> > 
> > Speaking from experience, there are an infinite number of formats that
> > people will ask us to support for one reason or another.
>  
> True, and I think you and I are in agreement, however I've learned from
> experience not to dismiss things too quickly.  This is kind of a deja vu
> for me because the first time I heard of bzip2 was due to a user request
> very much like this one (he even offered to help set it up).  I
> dismissed it out of hand at the time for a variety of reasons (dang new
> fangled technology!), but then had to eat my words within a few months
> when a bunch more users requested it.  ;-)
> 
> I learned my lesson though.  When Mike Hearn came to me about doing
> Autopackage for Inkscape, I'd never heard of it and it sounded pretty
> "blue sky", but I told him that if he would set it up and provide
> support, we'd certainly accept it.  I think it turned out to be a good
> decision.  Autopackage was not a widely known format, so benefitted by
> having Inkscape as an example.  It's benefitted Inkscape a lot too,
> especially for users on RPM-based systems that lacked the more up to
> date versions of Inkscape.  Both projects gained both technically
> (dependency management for autopackage, bin reloc for inkscape), and in
> terms of indirectly shared PR.
> 
> Now here we are again with 7zip...  A new format that isn't widespread,
> but seems to have some growing support in the community.  We've had at
> least a couple users with interest in it.  There's a variety of reasons
> why it probably doesn't seem like a worthwhile format for us to provide,
> but you know, my thinking is, as long as someone's willing to set it up
> and support it, heck why not?  Some of our users might appreciate it,
> and maybe by lending our support, it'll become a bit more popular and
> widespread. 
> 
> Anyway, I'd say let's invite the 7zip proposers to get involved in
> adding it to our release scripts.  I wouldn't imagine it'd be too hard
> to do.  There's two weeks 'til the next release, that should be plenty
> of time for the 7zippers to get it working.  :-)

I agree...whoever wants to step forward to do this, then please respond
and/or hop onto our chat channel to help on this task.

Ask and ye shall receive...

Jon

> 
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