On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:52, Rodney Waldhoff wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Brett Porter wrote:
> 
> > I don't believe in this assumption, as I have in the past (although
> > reluctantly) used .zip on Unix, and I just about always use .tar.gz on
> > Windows via cygwin.
> 
> There is an assumption either way, this is simply trying to make the
> assumption more accurate.
> 
> 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.

I thought zip gave you the option when unpacking to select the line
ending? I use 'unzip -a <file>' to get unix line endings.


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jvz.

Jason van Zyl
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In short, man creates for himself a new religion of a rational
and technical order to justify his work and to be justified in it.
  
  -- Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society


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