Re: 100 character tar limit

[Dave Inskeep]

Would jar files be an acceptable substitute for tar files? Anyone who would 
be interested in using Ant would certainly have jar, and I (perhaps 
incorrectly) assume that all versions of jar should handle 100+ filenames 
correctly.

I don't know if jar handles permissions on Unix properly, though.
Dave
At 12:54 AM 2/1/01 +1100, you 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.*
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.
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