As this is a step towards reproducable builds I see this as a good thing.

Depending on platform defaults should be punished...:-)

/Anders

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Kristian Rosenvold <
kristian.rosenv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently plexus-archiver uses platform encoding for zip file names if
> none is specified. This is "compliant" with traditional Zip history.
>
> But zip understood this is a problem and introduced a "LEF" flag,
> which basically means all entries must be UTF-8.
>
> I would like to switch defaults in plexus zip archiver; make it
> *disregard* platform encoding and always output utf8 + LEF, unless a
> different encoding has been explicitly specified.
>
> In consequence this would make zip behave like "jar" does; always
> default to the well-defined UTF-8 + LEF standard.
>
> This will break builds for people that actually *want* archives in
> file.encoding; they will need to explicitly specify encoding to get
> that encoding. To my understanding this is not really an issue, LEF
> support is ancient history.
>
> Opinions ?
>
> Kristian
>
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