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John Sisson commented on GERONIMO-1286: --------------------------------------- We need to discuss this further, as I felt we had a majority that wanted the zip to be CRLF. Windows users may also use DOS commands to view files, so if the files just had LFs I am guessing it wouldn't be usable. Also it bugs me when on windows and being asked by editors whether I want to convert the file to DOS format. Surely there are enough windows users in the world to consider a distribution format that is suited to them. *NIX users should use the tar.gz distribution. I don't like the idea of relying upon the line endings of the release system. Builds should be consistent, no matter what system they are built on. I am going to check in my changes so far to modules/assembly. What ever is decided needs to be integrated into the new build. > Have CRLF line endings for zip distribution and LF line endings for tar.gz > distribution > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: GERONIMO-1286 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1286 > Project: Geronimo > Type: Improvement > Components: usability > Versions: 1.0 > Reporter: John Sisson > Assignee: John Sisson > Fix For: 1.0 > > Previously, the line endings on files in a Geronimo distribution were based > upon the platform the distribution was built on. > The build needs to be improved so that no matter what platform Geronimo is > built on: > * the resulting distributions should contain the same files (no files > excluded) > * the resulting zip distribution should have CRLF line endings for > viewable/editable text files and therefore is targeted at windows users. > * the resulting tar.gz distribution should have LF line endings for > non-Windows platforms. All non-Windows users should use the tar.gz file as > the tar file also contains permission settings for the files. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
