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Sean Busbey commented on NIFI-609:
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I've been doing more work with Windows support over in YCSB and it's made me
appreciate providing zip file for distributions. It's a pain on windows to deal
with tarballs because you have to go install an additional dependency and there
isn't a clear category leader for tarballs. (ref [the ycsb docs on dealing with
tarballs|https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/wiki/Prerequisites-for-Windows#means-to-expand-targz-files])
So long as NiFi wants to support running on windows as a first class citizen, I
think providing zip files make sense. Now, it might be worth providing both zip
fils and tarballs, but given that dealing with zip is straightforward on every
linux system I've been on it just seems like more artifacts to sign.
Maybe close this out in favor of a FAQ item that explains why NiFi provides zip
files in case other folks have the questions that came up back when we were in
incubator?
> update to apache parent version 17
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> Key: NIFI-609
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-609
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Task
> Components: Tools and Build
> Affects Versions: 0.0.1
> Reporter: Sean Busbey
> Assignee: Sean Busbey
> Fix For: 0.3.0
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> Attachments: NIFI-609.1.patch
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> we should update to version 17 of the apache parent pom so we can get MPOM-47
> and do .tar.gz source release artifacts.
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