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OpenStudio is a cross-platform collection of software tools to support whole building energy modeling using EnergyPlus and advanced daylight analysis using Radiance.
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Release .zip Instead of .tar.gz for Windows #5218

Closed bonnema closed 2 weeks ago

bonnema commented 1 month ago

Enhancement Request

Release .zip Instead of .tar.gz for Windows

Detailed Description

A .zip would be more appropriate for Windows that a .tar.gz (e.g., natively supported)

Possible Implementation

Is probably a configuration option

shorowit commented 1 month ago

For what it's worth Windows 11 is going to natively support tar.gz (and other) compression file types: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/goodbye-third-party-tools-windows-11-supports-7-zip-tar-archives/

bonnema commented 1 month ago

Interesting. I did not know that. So maybe this issue should be to provide a .zip in addition to the .tar.gz?

shorowit commented 1 month ago

Personally, I don't think it's worth it. Note that PeaZip is a nice free tool for Windows that can work with tar.gz.

bonnema commented 1 month ago

It might not be. I just found it odd, and I know many folks do not have administrative rights on their Windows computers. A .zip might come in handy in that case. Maybe it depends on the level of effort required to determined if it is worth it or not.

jmarrec commented 2 weeks ago

7-Zip is the de-facto standard on windows IMHO.

And you already have the tar command on windows unless you use a very old windows 10 build. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/tar-and-curl-come-to-windows/

Open a prompt, tar xfz my.tar.gz.

Anyone having problems with that can create zip themselves on another machine if they want.

Yes, it is easy to request a zip instead of a tar.gz (CPACK_BINARY_TGZ=OFF CPACK_BINARY_ZIP=ON), and but I actually like this is a tar.gz and not a zip, because when we consume it in other CI / github actions script, it's one less really annoying if [[ "$RUNNER_OS" == "Windows" ]]; then unzip -o my.zip; else tar xfz my.tar.gz; fi

I'm closing this one, but @wenyikuang if you disagree, then reopen