[Vorbis-dev] Re: [xiph-commits] r14550 - releases/vorbis

[Ralph Giles]

On 3-Mar-08, at 5:59 PM, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves wrote:

> Basically, it's the free counter-part of rar, but with Unicode support
> and even better compression.  Since it's pretty much the next-gen zip,
> I thought it would be better to provide that instead of a zip.  It's
> not a big issue (I hope) because the usual tgz is available as well
> and people who can compile surely know how to use one of them.  On the
> compression/bandwidth-saving side, the same data in zip would take 1.4
> Mb as opposed to the 570 Kb of the 7z.

Thanks for explaining. I was confused by the executable bit and  
because the file extension looks like a further version number. Not  
idea for the *nix workflow, I guess.

  -r