At 12:54 1/2/01 +1100, Conor MacNeill wrote: >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.*
painful isn't it ;) >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. Well zip ain't so pretty for *nix users as all the permissions are lost. An option would be to zip up the src/main directory as src.zip and have them extract it when they suck it down to their machine. Alternatively we could hack out tar classes and make un-posix compliant and more GNU compliant. Theres a java library (jTar) that does this so it shouldn't be too hard. However this guarentees we can only distribute to GNU based peeps. Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
