These prepackaged releases include Goldie, SemiTwist D Tools and prebuilt
local Goldie documentation.
They're available with prebuilt binaries for
specific OSes. While prebuilt binaries are not currently available for
all OSes, compiling from source is easy, and
submissions
of prebuilt binaries are welcome.
Why 7z?
The prepackaged releases are in
.7z format because it provides much
higher compression than
.zip or
.tar.bz2. For Goldie,
a
.7z is less than half the size a
.zip or
.tar.bz2 would be.
Besides, these days, no programmer should be without a
.7z tool.
If you're on Windows, you can use
7-Zip or
WinRAR.
If you're on a Unix-like system, you can use
P7ZIP.
On Debian or Ubuntu, you can install P7ZIP with the command:
>sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
When P7ZIP is installed, it may already be integrated with your file
manager's default compression tool.