[Scummvm-devel] Demo hosting disruption

Sven Hesse drmccoy at users.sourceforge.net
Thu May 12 13:16:27 CEST 2011


On 2011-05-12 10:33:42 +0200, Max Horn wrote:
> The filenames are fine by me. The only thing I am wondering about is the .zip format. Its major bonus is its wide spread adoption -- OS X and Windows support it out of the box, and I bet most Linux distros will, too
> But then it is also typically produces bigger files than .tar.bz2 or even .tar.gz ... not to mention .7z and others. Often 30% or more (but I have no idea how much the difference is for the demos). 

In a slightly similar topic, what's really getting on my nerves is
that I frequently find that stupid Mac OS X bogus stuff in them: the
__macosx directory and the .DS_Store files. Is there no way to not
spam the contents of every damn ZIP file with those dummies on Macs?
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