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Interesting, never heard tarballs being classified as odd before. They are still widely used.
by rowbin 3y ago
Interesting, never heard tarballs being classified as odd before. They are still widely used.
- Frost1x 3y agoIf it's something you intend to package to a non-Windows user then sure it's not odd. I send file archives to non-tech users all the time internally. I absolutely do not tarball them, I zip them. When it comes to less tech savvy users, a tarball is definitely an odd format to deal with.
- AdmiralAsshat 3y agoIf you're a non-developer Windows user, you won't encounter a tarball in the wild very often. I think I first ran into one when I wanted an emulator in the early aughts (as a teenager) and found it on Sourceforge. My immediate thoughts were, "What the hell is this?" and "Why didn't they just give me an EXE?"