On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov <questpc(a)rambler.ru> wrote:
* Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh(a)gmail.com>
[Tue, 30 Nov 2010 08:44:43
+0100]:
I think that the most recent version should be
sufficient. I don't
think Java would break backwards compatibility: users wouldn't be
happy if their old jar suddenly stops working on a new JVM.
Why an outdated and inefficient ZIP format, after all? 7zip is
incompatible to JVM, should it be a better choice for archive uploads?
Or, that is too hard to parse on PHP side (I gueses console exec is
required)?
You can create a zip easily on all major OSes with drag'n'drop.
Windows supports it IIRC from Win 98 SE and up, a standard Linux by
the tools the desktop installs (for KDE, it once was Ark), and MacOS
also delivers ZIP out of the box.
For ZIP, there are even built-in PHP functions to handle it.
7zip is, though open source, requiring third-party plugins, both for
the OS and servers, and 7zip is not really widespread. RAR and ZIP are
the dominant formats in cross-platform data exchange.
Marco
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