I think a source distribution should contain the raw, unprocessed source files. The contents of the .zip and .tar.gz should be identical.
If people want to change line endings they can do it for themselves. Or use an appropriate git setting. > On Dec 12, 2019, at 1:03 AM, Francis Chuang <[email protected]> wrote: > > In this commit, Vladimir brought to my attention that editors on Windows > will complain about line endings if there isn't a zip source release with > Windows line endings: > https://github.com/apache/calcite-avatica/commit/34bbcb63f9216d3a5bc29dae1981a55e335d30df#commitcomment-36393594 > > I don't really work on the Java source directly, do not have personal > experience with this. In CALCITE-2333[1], we stopped releasing zip archives > and have stuck to only producing a tar.gz source release. > > Should we re-introduce a Zip archive with all files converted to Windows line > endings? > > I use Windows as my main operating system and Goland (IntelliJ) and Notepad++ > as my editors and I exclusively used Linux line endings for my source files. > For Go source files, I've not had any issues with the compilation and for the > Java source files I open in IntelliJ or Notepad++, I've not run into any > issues. > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-2333
