Re: [Mingw-users] New Release: w32api-0.3.tar.gz and w32api-0.3-src.tar.gz

[Greg C. <chi...@mi...>]

Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> 
>     We should work out packaging conventions and adhere to them. By
> obvious reasons I vote for .zip instead of .tar.gz (otherwise, we can
> go directly to rpm's ;-) ).

Following the links from
  http://www.mingw.org/ported.shtml
I see three different conventions:

- Mumit uses .zip - the most familiar format in the dos/windows world.

- Earnie uses .tar.gz - the most common *nix format AFAIK. The popular
'winzip' program handles gzipped tarballs pretty seamlessly, for those
who want a GUI.

- Mikey uses .tar.bz2 - popular enough, and superior compression.

I've used all three, and they all seem to work well. But now I see
  http://pw32.sourceforge.net/manual/packaging.html
which I'll have to study. Are you the author, Paul? If I have comments,
where should I send them? (I assume discussion would be off topic here.)

Above all else, let's discourage any formats other than the above.
Not everyone has current versions of arj, zoo, lha, and so on.