Hacks should be released in ONE ZIP file please

[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Erwin

I am still amazed that this discussion is still going on - people, all we are asking is that you zip up files before attaching them - this is a download site - zipping up the downloads is a reasonable request.

Not really. I've already been zipping up my multiple-file hacks before this started. It is a download site, but a download site running gzip by default, so zipping files is redundant.

Vb.org is not really "asking", you disabled the possibility of uploading anything other than zip files, so the request doesn't make any sense.

The outrage of some developers (minority?) is due to forcing zips for single files, even for posts that are not hacks.

The outrage of another minority who speculate on the real motive (maybe just me), is that you are penalizing the many for the sins of the few. This is the case here, and is the case for disabling the who installed this hack feature. This an alarming trend, and can only get worse.

The more you put the squeeze on authors and make things less pleasant, with less tools, less say, plus a bit of suspicion, you grow a sense of "us" and "them" on this forum, you'd get less motivation, less interest and less quality of future releases. There's no real winners in this scenaro, not even Jelsoft.