Internal distributions are usually not used on productive Unix systems, which I have in mind.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote: > I honestly don't care what format we use. I would just prefer to have one. > For a long time we've just been using zips for internal distributions and it > hasn't caused a problem. Just figured we would cater to the windows users > because there are more of them. > > On 2009-10-11, at 11:23 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------- >>> Jason van Zyl >>> Founder, Apache Maven >>> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl >>> ---------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Germanys national anthem is the most boring in the world - how telling! >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Jason van Zyl > Founder, Apache Maven > http://twitter.com/jvanzyl > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Germanys national anthem is the most boring in the world - how telling! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
