This is a little off-topic, but just wondering...<br><br>In my work on Develop, I am looking at a similar situation: application bundles. These are zip files with the extension .xo. My question is, why bother zipping them if the file system compresses anyway? <br>
<br>Why not, you ask. I know that ziptools can work on them in place (actually I don't want to anyway). But if the journal is going to eventually do version control, it may one day want to do diffs, and stuffing everything into a zip makes that a lot tougher.<br>
<br>OTOH, these things do fly over the net, there is bandwidth.<br><br>The same questions could be asked about any bundle file which is really a zip. Especially if it is full of jpg files, which zip doesn't compress any anyway.<br>
<br>Just a thought,<br>Jameson<br>