Is it really worth bothering? I see no positive aspects, apart from
saving some bytes of space and a few words in the pom and/or assembly
descriptors. OTOH, you'd make us depending on the presence of a
"modern zip implementation", which Unix distributions tend to have
not. I''d strongly recommend to keep tar distributions.

Note, that you could also say that "modern unarchives seem to be able
to extract tar files" and recommend to drop the zip distribution with
roughly the same likelyhood to be correct.

Jochen



On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Modern zip implementations seem to handle perms and such fine, how about we
> just distribute a zip?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
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