Why zip?

[alex_koshterek]

Hi

Why developers choose zip format instead tar.gz by example?

I downloaded JBoss 2.4.3+Catalina (10 megs) decompress it and compress again to tar.gz.
Archive become 8 megs size. 2 megs saved!

[adrian.brock]

Windows doesn't support tar.gz

Although Cygwin and WinZip does.

tar.bz2 is even smaller.

Regards,
Adrian

[dward2]

Also, people can use the "jar" command to unzip zip files (same format). This way people aren't required to even have winzip. They need to have the jdk installed anyway to run JBoss, so they automatically get jar.