On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Dmitriy Sintsov questpc@rambler.ru wrote:
- Bryan Tong Minh bryan.tongminh@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Why an outdated and inefficient ZIP format, after all? 7zip is incompatible to JVM, should it be a better choice for archive uploads?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