Tarball File

[SilverArrow]

It'd be nice to have the vBulletin downloads in a tar.gz format, so you can untar them on the server, instead of having to unzip them on your system and then upload.

It'd make things go much faster on installs for people like me who have 56Ks.

[JamesUS]

Hmmm good idea - though this would have to be an option (ie choose your download format when you download). I for one would still choose ZIP as I need to make code changes whenever I do a vB Upgrade, so I download it to my computer.

[tubedogg]

Any relatively recent ZIP program can handle tarballs, even gzipped tarballs.

[eva2000]

yup winzip handles them fine :D

[Kier]

It's also fairly easy to get hold of an executable that can unzip .zip files on a Unix server... the one on my server is called (surprise) unzip :)

[eva2000]

yup and if your linux server doesn't have unzip you can install it yourself http://i4net.tv/marticle/get.php?action=getarticle&articleid=11 :)

[JamesUS]

Originally posted by tubedogg
Any relatively recent ZIP program can handle tarballs, even gzipped tarballs.

Ah but I don't use a ZIP program; I use Windows XP's built in ZIP support. And I am pretty sure that doesn't work with tarballs.

[RWJDCom]

why not just install the unix version of 'unzip' you can get it from any GNU software site.

For Windows you'd need to get WinZip for the tar.gz files.

[JamesUS]

Originally posted by eyckzo
why not just install the unix version of 'unzip' you can get it from any GNU software site.

For Windows you'd need to get WinZip for the tar.gz files.

That would work for some people but most wouldn't have access to install things like that on their servers - they would have to ask the host/admin to do it and they're not always cooperative.

I think for now just ZIP is fine, though an option for tar.gz would be great as well.

[eva2000]

will i did post a gzip.exe file in an attachment here that you can use to gzip up files...

[Nmare]

I have Windows ME built in Compressed folders, used for ZIP, Im just wondering, how does WinZip compare to Compressed Folders?

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by Nmare
I have Windows ME built in Compressed folders, used for ZIP, Im just wondering, how does WinZip compare to Compressed Folders?

Faster, more features, easier to use, overall a better program.

[Nmare]

Originally posted by wluke


Faster, more features, easier to use, overall a better program.

Thats cool.. Then I right clicked my desktop, and wanted to create a compressed folder, and it wasnt there, instead there Was A New System settings document. Could it have disappeared because i have WinRAR? Sorry to get off topic..

[Dave#]

It's pretty bad practice to mess with gzipped tar balls on windows machines. Whilst Winzip will handle php, Perl etc it won't handle #bash or Python scripts/code very well.

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by Dave#
It's pretty bad practice to mess with gzipped tar balls on windows machines. Whilst Winzip will handle php, Perl etc it won't handle #bash or Python scripts/code very well.

Hmm.. never had a problem with them. They are just text files. The problem is that Notepad doesn't understand Unix file formats so you have to get a tool that does like Textpad or UltraEdit.

[Dave#]

we see it all the time on the Gallery mailing lists

http://gallery.sourceforge.net/