[cle-release-team] Rationalising the download artifacts

[David Horowitz]

The downside on nix will be that the exacutable files in bin will need to be chmod'ed to be made exacutable as zip doesn't save permissions

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On 22 Jun 2012, at 2:04 AM, Matthew Jones <matthew at longsight.com> wrote:

> Yea, I dont think anyone on unix will miss the tar.gz anymore. unzip isn't usually available by default but trivial to install with every package manager.
> 
> There might be someone running some old distro that this could inconvenience for 30 minutes, though nobody I know.
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net> wrote:
> Makes sense to me.
> -AZ
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Steve Swinsburg
> <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > A bunch of downloads are listed on the release page:
> > http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/2.8.2/
> >
> > It lists separate downloads for both Windows and Mac/*nix which differ only because one is packaged as a zip and one is a .tar.gz.
> >
> > Since both Mac and *nix can read zip files without any issue, can we cull the tar.gz artifacts? They are >300 Mb each so that would save on disk space and release time.
> >
> > cheers,
> > Steve
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