On 9/17/2016 5:53 AM, vanadovv@hetnet.nl wrote:
Hi Paul, +1
I am glad you finally supplied an Lzip archive to play with. I just can't find a suitable Windows application for extracting this archive. Searching the internet doesn't give any meaningful results. Probably because absolutely nobody does lzip on Windows; this seems to be a Unix-Linux-only show.
I have found the program Lzip from Antonio Diaz at lzip.nongnu.org, but this is not a Windows program. Somebody has made a port to Windows 32-bits 6 years ago. But does this work on my 64-bits Windows 10? And if it does, do we get a decent application program with a graphical user interface or do we have to mess about with 50 years old technology like the command line interface? Anyhow, I managed to find a Windows program that can handle 180 different archive file formats: PeaZip. This nice and well kept Windows program doesn't do lzip! It appears that lzip is way too exotic in the Windows world to be bothered with.
It is very likely that the number of Windows users of at least the TZ data is too large to ignore. So again: please drop this Unix-Linux-only stuff and keep the TZ distribution in a more universal archive format. That's why I earlier mentioned the list of supported formats at 7-Zip. If 7-zip doesn't support a format, then changes are slim that anything does in the Windows world.
And yes, I know you are planning to distribute TZ also in the old gz format, at least for the moment. But, given all the comments regarding breaking up a work flow, non support in Windows, and other comments, why still pushing lzip?
Yours,
Oscar van Vlijmen
----Origineel Bericht---- Van : eggert@cs.ucla.edu Datum : 16/09/2016 17:53 Aan : raghuram.prahlada@oracle.com Cc : tz@iana.org Onderwerp : Re: [tz] Time zone change in Turkey
On 09/16/2016 03:37 AM, Raghuram wrote:
Do we have a 2016g release coming shortly for the Turkey ? Yes, the 2016g release code and data have been finalized. We are merely waiting for the crank to be turned internally in order to get it published at iana.org and announced on tz-announce.
If you are in a hurry, acopy of the complete 2016g release is attached. Toconvert it to the traditional two-tarball format, run the following shell commands on a POSIX host with GNU tar, gzip, and lzip installed:
tar -xf tzdb-2016g.tar.lz cd tzdb-2016g make tarballs
The tarballs are all reproducible and have the following SHA512 checksums:
280f9bd9ee6eacc5cf82004dc5efd4e1d245e68a576c6d8172ebae0247d0777ac8987aed33609106eb1d596229979452023b593d1a4a58be9bc0932c376a3533 tzcode2016g.tar.gz 7b414c1af80faed335a59f40a18931265b71f8dacc3a5f3bd93e8ea0e3d6416a6839dfb88c64b04df3c728c4fb44105503ddb6e87f317dbff29e43c491c2fb3d tzdata2016g.tar.gz f3a26967d77a27c015f3259ab40ff77de16b9d517cbf8bbff30c110a239e3104289727e529cb5675c140cba199073575a63d84265e4b8068f70d730bb780fea8 tzdb-2016g.tar.lz
Or you can get the 2016g code and data from the GitHub experimental repository. It's tagged with '2016g'.
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