| From: | Matthew J Fletcher |
| Date: | 5 Sep 2000 at 19:57:41 |
| Subject: | RE: AMIOPEN: Compressed archive formats |
> Better compression is not an issue. Who cares if you save a few bytes, if
> you're losing consistancy for the user. LHA still works just fine today.
> And how much better compression do you expect in the future? We must be
> pretty close to the limit now...
bzip can do about 30% better than lha over binaries, on a 10 mb download thats
more than a few bytes.
> There are many ways things could be handled in the future. (Auto updating
> archivers, etc.) But for the near future, during development and the early
> days of the AmigaOne, a standard preferred archive format should be
> determined.
If people have problems extracting archives then perhaps they should not be
using a beta os.
> The risk you run is that you keep having to add new support for every
> little change that happens, users start getting out of date, and before
> you know it, you've got the bloated Windoze.
Either the os adds support for every new file format or every application
has to do it indipendantly,.. me i would rarther amiga inc to the work for
me...
> There are no easy answers. :/
Very true,.
> And I don't mean those
> annoying requesters that pop up and tell you that you're out of date, and
> that you should upgrade everything!
they piss me off,.. windoze just started a 10mb download of ie 5.5, and i had
to pull the plug to stop it...
regards,
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Matthew J Fletcher amimjf@connectfree.co.uk
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