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Use 7-Zip ( http://www.7-zip.org/ ) when compressing your plugin into a .zip archive as it gives better compression than Winzip.

The following shows the optimal settings




A Mac OSX port is available here
http://www.kekaosx.com/en/

Remember, create a standard .zip file: only use the "Deflate" compression method as some applications can't open zips which were compressed using "Deflate64" or "BZip2".

Well, I think that in most cases it just doesn't matter whether your file is 10 or 12 mb big, but it's still good to have such a tool.

2mb = 7minutes download in dialup, ~1 minute average on broadband.
Around 50%+ are on dialup.
Your theoretical submission downloaded 300 times from The Tain would mean around 20 hours of wasted time downloading the extra 2mb and an extra 600mb+ of bandwidth use.

Eddaweaver wrote:2mb = 7minutes download in dialup, ~1 minute average on broadband.
Around 50%+ are on dialup.
Your theoretical submission downloaded 300 times from The Tain would mean around 20 hours of wasted time downloading the extra 2mb and an extra 600mb+ of bandwidth use.

Remember: ZIPS! Always always do zips. Remember: 7z is BAD FOR BABIES. Zips are good.

(Sharps instructions produce zips, but just make sure...).

Speaking which can someone convert all those .sit archives, I cant open those even with stuffit for windows

Which?

hell, i couldnt even expand .sit on my brand new mac. It seems stuffit expander is not free anymore. If anyone can proove me wrong I'd appreciate!

The free version can still be downloaded but they now require your full name and email address.

I think all entries on The Tain in .sit should be recompressed to .zip. Stuffit has become an archaic, inaccessible format and has always been a difficulty to deal with.

http://www2.jsonline.com/news/state/may ... 52000a.asp

Eddaweaver wrote:The free version can still be downloaded but they now require your full name and email address.

Has for a few years now.

Your point is quite true though, but as myrd said, "which?"

-DA

Can the tain db be searched for .sit files in whatever column holds the archive name?

(.sit is evil, evil, evil)

Yeah, .sit is evil.

I recently approved the bushido pack on The Tain and I figured after that it was a .rar, perhaps this one needs rezipping too

.sit RULZ!

I can't wait for the day that the evil empire of zippness falls crashing around your competing incompatible not-quite-cross-platform-zip formatted feet and stuffit re-ascends to it's rightful place as ruler of the file compression pantheon.

i lurv .sits.

RAR is my choice for compression, but in all things Myth I use ZIP since it is easy for any user to get ahold of it.

.sit actually works better in OS 9 because it preserves resource information that .zip doesn't. However this is really only important for OS 9 applications. All plugins should be .zip.