Posted August 11, 2015
hedwards: It's extra server space, extra bandwidth and if you really feel like just extracting the files, it shouldn't be too hard to do that.
Really? So the unpacked version, that Galaxy downloads, doesn't need any extra space? Beside, compressed tarballs usually take less space then zip files. I know. Zip and unzip usually arent't part of the installation media. They have to be installed. In contrary tar is - and even if you have some obscure version without gzip support - guess what, gzip is also another standard tool. And don't forget: there are more OS's than Windows, MacOSX and Linux.
Seriously? AMD's script is an incredible mess. Just have a look at it's code. It barely works on supported distributions.
Post edited August 11, 2015 by classicgogger