Zipping Up an LC standalone program

[Warren Samples]

On 04/10/2012 07:54 PM, Pete wrote:
> Hi Warren,
> It's the un-zipping at the other end that concerns me, not the zip on my
> machine.  Sounds like the ability to handle tar files might require a
> Windows user to install some software.
> Pete


Yes, that is something completely different :D You could offer the more 
efficient tbz2 format for your Mac users (and your Linux users when you 
get to that) and the ZIP format for your Windows users. You could also 
offer your Windows users a tbz2 version alongside the ZIP version and 
some info on software they could use to open it. If your users have 
managed to find your software and are capable of installing it, they 
should also have no trouble installing the software to decompress the 
archive. You just don't want to make it a requirement! Will you need to 
recreate these archives so frequently that this will be a terrible 
burden on you?

It was Mark who commented that tar+compression seems like too much work 
without any benefit, and my original comment was mostly a response to 
that thought.

Warren