> If you checkout a project on a Unix machine and do a "maven > dist", you get unix style linefeeds on all files, including > README.txt and LICENSE.txt and the like, in both the .zip and > .tgz versions of the distribution. While this is generally > manageable, it is the wrong choice on half the platforms.
>From what I can tell, usually the line feeds stay as they were in the repository. At the moment there is probably a mix. > While scripts are probably more signficant, it'd be nice if > the README and LICENSE files were appropriately line-ended as > well. Is there fixcrlf on *.bat/*.sh now? No, but it's the reason for a few bugs on Maven itself being reported so it should be in place. Maven doesn't use dist at the moment to build itself either though :) I see your point with the README/LICENSE files. I guess since it just works for most files (As most tools now support either line ending), the zip/tar.gz distinction might be a good idea. If someone can use a tar.gz they will always get it because they tend to be smaller. Cheers, Brett
