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DuckDuckHack OpenSource Development Application
http://metacpan.org/module/App::DuckPAN
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RAR archives? #137

Closed gim- closed 9 years ago

gim- commented 9 years ago

Today I decided to investigate what I can do with DuckDuckHack and there is something I really don't understand. I had an impression of DuckDuckGo being closer to free and open source world than many other alternatives, but now I see how README suggests to download DuckDuckHack Development Virtual Machine (https://github.com/duckduckgo/p5-app-duckpan#duckduckhack-development-virtual-machine) which is packed into such an ugly proprietary format as RAR which requires downloading non-free software to extract it. That's a bit disappointing. Why not to use just ZIP or 7Z for this?

moollaza commented 9 years ago

@gim- that's a great suggestion, I'll mention this to the team.

However,

which requires downloading non-free software to extract it.

I'm pretty sure there are many free utilities you can get on all platforms to open a .rar file? I've certainly never bough anything to open a .rar. I know that 7zip can open .rar and it's free :)

gim- commented 9 years ago

Thanks for reply, @moollaza ! I am actually talking about free as freedom, not price. There are no free (libre) software which can extract RAR archives. 7zip for Windows uses non-free unrar module to do this.

moollaza commented 9 years ago

@gim- aaah. right, that makes much more sense :)

mikedep333 commented 9 years ago

Hi @gim- This will be fixed as part of #182 . The new DuckDuckHack VMs will be distributed in .ova format, which uses tar and gzip.

moollaza commented 9 years ago

Fixed in #182