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Linux apps packaged as zip? #WTF

• panzi 12y ago
  Why not? It's not something you need/want an installer for.
  • jhasse 12y ago
    zip doesn't save file permissions and also .tar.xz gives smaller file sizes.
    • panzi 12y ago
      Are you sure about that? http://i.imgur.com/BpYW657.png http://i.imgur.com/BpYW657.png Ok, .xz might be smaller but literally everyone can unpack .zip files.
      • jhasse 12y ago
        Oh, didn't know that. Well than there's only the smaller file size. I think in the Linux world everyone can also unpack tar.xz files.
        • panzi 12y ago
          Yeah, but I guess it's because they come from Windows and don't know what the best compression algorithm supported by every Linux distribution of today is. They just know everyone can unpack zip and its good enough. Heck I would have guessed 7z is the best current compression algorithm... wait is 7z a algorithm or a container format? Wasn't the algorithm 7z uses called lzma or something like that? Who keeps track of this all?
          • jhasse 12y ago
            7z and xz both use LZMA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz