[wp-testers] Nightly Builds/WinZip Replacement

[Doug Stewart]

Gregory Wild-Smith wrote:
> Basically, to sum up: People who work mostly on windows and don't use 
> programs that understand tar.gz (which is basically the normal tools 
> people would use for compression on windows) are annoyed.
> 
> Personally I don't have this issue, as I run winRAR, and it's *not* an 
> issue, as its easily fixed with a free download.
> 
> This wouldn't even be thought of as an issue if WordPress's nightly 
> builds hadn't *previously* been available as zip files, which they were 
> until several months ago (so why this is turning up now, I don't know).
> 
> Perhaps some clarification from Matt/Ryan/Whomever as to why zip was 
> dropped would help?
> 

+1, Issue distillation.

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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs
dstewart at atl.lmco.com