Three formats? Why?
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I needed to download the Ruby Source recently from here and it says, "available in three formats" which are .tar.bz2
, .tar.gz
and .zip
. Is there any reason that we need all three formats? At least on Linux and OSX I can do any of the three easily. On Windows, only zip is built-in, I think. Is there anything behind these preferences or is this just a religious battle?
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