Download gives a tar.gz on Windows

[Gankra]

Should probably be a zip on windows. Is there any issue with zip on any other platform?

[alexcrichton]

Hm, so the registry's notion of a tarball is akin to rubygem's notion of a "gem", which is to say that this isn't something generated on the fly but rather is something that cargo itself understands and is uniform across all platforms.

I don't expect too many manual downloads of packages, but this is somewhat worrying if it becomes common...

[Gankra]

If it downloaded a like .crate file (that's just a .tar.gz) that cargo knows how to unzip I could live with that.

[alexcrichton]

We could, but then we need to add UI to cargo to create/unpack crate files. It's not a very fancy download today in that it's just a tarball of the source directory with no metadata, so maybe we just shouldn't give out downloads for now...

[wycats]

I like the idea of a .crate file.

[alexcrichton]

I'm just gonna remove the download link altogether, there's not much you can do with it anyway.

[wycats]

Sounds good to me.