On 6 Oct 2019, at 9:14, Hervé BOUTEMY wrote: > if anybody cares about the exact value: but > who really looks at the timestamp of entries in release zips/jars/tar.gz > honestly?
I've actually done so in the past trying to find differences between two versions of a jar for repair reasons. VERY infrequent tho - if you're wanting to generate a delta-patch between two jars/zips then I guess it might also be handy (altho you might be better off going direct for checksumdifferences there ). --- "The ease with which a change can be implemented has no relevance at all to whether it is the right change for the (Java) Platform for all time." — Mark Reinhold. Mark Derricutt http://www.theoryinpractice.net http://www.chaliceofblood.net http://plus.google.com/+MarkDerricutt http://twitter.com/talios http://facebook.com/mderricutt
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