[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #7198: .tar.gz for WordPress plugins

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#7198: .tar.gz for WordPress plugins
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 Reporter:  brettalton  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal      |   Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  General     |     Version:           
 Severity:  normal      |    Keywords:           
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 Take this plugin for example: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/

 It only is available in .zip format
 (http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/stats.1.2.2.zip).

 While .zip files are good and universal, I think adding an option to
 download in .tar.gz format would greatly help improve administration on
 *nix machines (BSD, Mac, Linux, etc.)

 'unzip' is not always available, whereas 'tar -xvf *.tar.gz' is usually
 much more universal.

 This would enable easier scripting for admins as well, especially the ones
 who use wget and PuTTY/BASH.

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