Adding my add-on

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• Mark Vanilla Staff

  July 2006

  Try it now - I've got a fairly limited list of file types that are allowed to upload, and all applications seem to have a different way of naming their archive types. I've added that one to the list.

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• Krak New

  July 2006

  Mark you should set a requirement on uploads. To keep from having 3,432 files in 54 different formats.

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• Jazzman

  July 2006

  Zip would suffice

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• kalikiana New

  July 2006 edited July 2006

  You should make people upload zip only. That format should be available on any computer. Most Win32 computers have the "compressed folders" feature but probably no way of handling tar.gz files. And most non-windows users would probably have some good archive solution installed anyway. ;)

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• bjrn

  July 2006

  To be honest, I'm more okay with gzip than I am with rar archives. As much as I like .rar (because it's usually better at compressing than .zip), it is a bit of a barrier for people who only have WinZip (which is quite a lot of people, in my experience, although perhaps people who want to set up their own Vanilla might be a bit more tech-savvy).

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• blizeH ✭✭

  July 2006

  I think most compression programs support .tar.gz extensions now anyway, but it'd still be nice just to have everything as a zip file so we know where we stand

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• Ben

  July 2006

  Zip file support is built into Windows now as well, so it's probably the most commonly supported.

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• kalikiana New

  July 2006

  Ben said: Zip file support is built into Windows now as well, so it's probably the most commonly supported.
  
  That's what I wanted to say. Rather tell a linux guy to install unzip but to tell an average win user to install a new archiver.

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• giginger New

  July 2006

  All the downloads seem to be .zip anyway. Maybe Mark has it set so that they're changed to zips automatically?

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• Krak New

  July 2006

  I don't really thing compression is an issue here, the files are merely a folder and a couple of .php files. Not a whole lot that needs compressing. It is more of creating and sticking to a standard. I prefer .rar myself, and I don't mind .tar.gz's at all, but most people out there are most likely unable to extract those files. Having to go download (and find) a program just to get a simple extension would be a real turn off. I'd say .zip is the most common solution.

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• garymardell ✭

  July 2006

  Yeah .rar is good yet for these small files zip is the best and most wide spread.

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• lech ✭

  July 2006

  I strongly suggest zip files, it's a VERY common file format everyone and their grandmothers are familiar with. And for what you're basically packaging you don't need to pack to save that whole 0.1kb extra as you would under another format. Given that it would be nice, but it's the end user who will be recieving this, not knowing what to do with it, and either discarding the extension or screaming about it later on. For the meanwhile, I suggest keeping it simple. Just do .zip.

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• Stash ✭

  July 2006

  Mark said, 7 days ago;
  Try it now - I've got a fairly limited list of file types that are allowed to upload, and all applications seem to have a different way of naming their archive types. I've added that one to the list.

  I've also run into this problem using the Attachments extension. If this is a Vanilla restriction, please would you let us know where we can add formats in our installations, as I'd like to use Vanilla on an intranet and people will be wanting to upload all sorts of nasty things like .doc, .xls, .mht...

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• Mark Vanilla Staff

  July 2006

  It's not a vanilla restriction. I mean, Vanilla doesn't allow you to upload anything by default - there's not even a single form in vanilla for uploading things. There is a class in the framework that I use for uploading items, and it allows you to specify file extensions / types that are allowed for upload. Basically I'm just trying to keep people from uploading executables.

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