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Posted Mar 8, 2010 12:30 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Downloading by lkundrak
Parent article: Mercurial 1.5 released

True, but tar and gzip are not packaged with Windows either. And who installs software on Windows by building it from source?


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Posted Mar 8, 2010 13:26 UTC (Mon) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Packaging for distributions is normally built on top of tarballs.

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Posted Mar 9, 2010 10:49 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

Windows's own built-in archive-extraction support doesn't support .tar.gz, but popular third-party (de-)compression tools for Windows do.

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