Closed be5invis closed 7 years ago
@ShikiSuen 7z
is not supported natively on any platform but it performs better compression rate.
I don't think 7z would be considered because decompressing zip is easiest on any platform than any other formats, and just as you mentioned, 7z isn't natively supported.
@be5invis Maybe Microsoft Windows will support it (plus commandline operation for 7z format).
Using a compression format other than ZIP is a nonstarter. The "release" branch includes on its landing page convenient download links for pre-prepared ZIP files that group related fonts by language or weight. In some cases, multiple ZIP files were necessary due to GitHub's 100MB file size limit. The Super OTC was necessarily provided as a two-part split ZIP file.
@be5invis 這「Release Branch」可以直接用 curl 下載零散的檔案(而非在 Release 頁面): https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/tree/release
They are not likely to listen. Ken Lunde already knew I did this on my mirrored SHSans download on CodePlex (now Nuked). If they really want to do this, it should already be done with their SHSans repo here.
Plus, 7z is not natively supported by macOS. I suggest using tar.gz if it has better compression rate than zip.