(06/07/2012 10:19 AM)trademark91 Wrote:  I don't see why everyone doesn't just use tarballs at this point.

Too UNIXy for the majority of Windoze users :P

Actually a bit of a shame that 7z can't store UNIX perms as it was designed for Windows (so can store some NTFS stuffs I believe).

It won't store NTFS properties.
There's other issues with compressing the whole file too, such as the tarball essentially forcing solid compression (difficult to extract a single file from a large archive).

(06/07/2012 09:38 PM)trademark91 Wrote:  To windows users, it would just be another file extension they opened with their favorite GUI.

As swell as that sounds, I've noticed many programs behaviour to not quite work as it would a ZIP, RAR or 7z file simply due to the fact it is an archive-in-an-archive. Unless the file is opened in an archive program and extracted directly (which would still involve the program extracting the file to a temporary location to retrieve file listings) you would usually have to perform two extractions, one from the bz2/gz compressed archive and another from the tar. So unfortunately, it isn't really as convenient from a Windows GUI perspective compared to the widely popular file formats used today with Windows. Like Zinga says, it's "Too UNIXy" to replace the ZIP or RAR.