How necessary is using tar.gz instead of zip?

[ice1000]

Is using .tar.gz for artifact an essential thing to do? Would it be very bad to upload using zip?

I'm working on making this to winget, which only works for zip rn, ref microsoft/winget-cli#2899

[Myriad-Dreamin]

tar are more widely deployed on unix machines.

It is smarter to provide zip for win platforms and tar.gz for rest platforms.

[Myriad-Dreamin]

This is handled by cargo-dist with one-line effort:

shiroa/dist-workspace.toml

Lines 13 to 16 in 00bc5eb

	# The archive format to use for windows builds (defaults .zip)
	windows-archive = ".zip"
	# The archive format to use for non-windows builds (defaults .tar.xz)
	unix-archive = ".tar.gz"