Adding RAR format to ZIP and TAR.GZ downloads

[Lumina]

Hello,

I just made the test with vbulletin 3.5.3 full package:
* the ZIP archive is 1.89 Mb
* the TAR.GZ archive is 1.59 Mb
* creating a RAR archive by myself, it is 1.09 Mb

And because vbulletin is a program, we could imagine a .EXE or .MSI installation file for Windows as well.

Well, nothing important, but it could just save you some bandwidth.

[Kier]

The problem as far as we're concerned with the RAR format is that compressing a RAR is extremely processor-intensive, far more so than Zip or Tar.Gz.

As we build and compress a unique package for every download, we'd rather keep the server running as fast as possible than cut down the bandwidth we use (of which we have lots and lots :))

[Lumina]

Ah, that's true! I completely forgot that a different build is required for each customer. :)

[MRGTB]

There is also the fact that both Winzip, Winace and WinRar can unzip ZIP files, were as Winzip can't extract WinRar files. So ZIP files are more user friendly really.

But Rar files do compress to a smaller file size than Zip, so you would save on bandwidth there