Closed Bug 221594 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Gzipped Tarballs of the binaries for MSWindows on FTP servers

Categories

(mozilla.org :: FTP: Staging, task)

Product:
mozilla.org
Component:
FTP: Staging
Type:
task
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: blakesley, Assigned: chase)

Details

User-Agent: <h1><strong>UA STRINGS SUCK BECAUSE THEY ENCOURAGE BAD WEBPAGE DESIGN></strong></h1> Build Identifier: This is a request for a feature. Something that I have found annoying not having. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Actual Results: Binaries of Mozilla Firebird, Seamonkey and Thunderbird are only available in PKZip format on the FTP servers. Expected Results: I suggest that for those of us without a copy of PKZip, the widely available GNUZip compression (and tar) be also used for compressing the Microsoft-Windows binaries of Mozilla.org's software ( _at_least_ for milestones).
Summary: Gzipped Tarballs of the binaries for MSW on FTP servers → Gzipped Tarballs of the binaries for MSWindows on FTP servers
Assignee: endico → cphillip
QA Contact: leaf → granrosebugs
On second thought, PKZip is the de facto standard on Windows, virtually everyone has it, decoders are widely available and often free (as in beer, at least), and we have self-starting installers for those without it. This isn't worth the added complexity or time spent fixing it given the time constraints we're operating under.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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