Re: [Freecol-developers] Release 0.10.0-alpha is in progress

[Michael V. <Mic...@gm...>]

On 23.01.2011 00:16, Michael T. Pope wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 08:14:03 pm Michael Vehrs wrote:
>    
>> We build rather a lot of packages, some of which are only rarely
>> downloaded. I propose reducing the number of packages by eliminating the
>> installer with sources package and all tar.gz packages.
>>      
> I am strongly in favour of reducing the release complexity (although its the
> website munging is what I find most awkward, its not something I do a lot of).
> Installer-with-source is a clear candidate for removal.  Unix bigots (myself
> included) will gripe about tgz losing to zip, but that is the price for being
> the more powerful system.  Go for it.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike Pope
>    

Alright. From the number of downloads you can see that the "Unix bigots" 
probably check out the repository anyway. And zip support is ubiquitous.

Regards

Michael