The 100 character limit on tar entries means that we are currently unable to build the tar.gz files of the distribution. This has been caused by two things. The tar file now prefixes all paths with "jakarta-ant-1.3alpha", which adds a few characters and some classes of the <depend> task have a relatively long path org.apache.tools.ant.optional.depend.constantpool.*
So, do we need to support distribution other than by .zip files. If so, any ideas on how we should handle the 100 char limit. We could break up the tree into a number of tar files and tar those up. Not sure if that would be considerd acceptable practice. Comments?
