Re: First 4.4.0 release candidate on alpha.gnu.org

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

----- Original Message -----
> From: John W. Eaton <address@hidden>
> To: Tatsuro MATSUOKA <address@hidden>; Octave Maintainers List 
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> Date: 2018/4/12, Thu 10:59
> Subject: Re: First 4.4.0 release candidate on alpha.gnu.org
> 
> On 04/11/2018 05:28 PM, Tatsuro MATSUOKA wrote:
> 
>>  I propose to add 7zip archive one for windows binaries due to much higher 
> compession ability than zip archive.
> 
> As an additional option, or to replace the zip archive?


For 4.0.x, I unofficially distributed 64bit windows binary only in 7zip. 
However, I targeted  at the time power users on windows.
For preliminary users on windows only can only handle zip archive, I think.
 
Therefore I vote to an additional option.
 
> 
> Will this utility work to produce the files?  I need something that runs on 
> my 
> Debian build system and that is free software.
> 
>   https://packages.debian.org/stretch/p7zip


I use 7za on Cygwin and Msys2. 

p7zip is Unix version of 7zip 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/

  
Tatsuro