hmm I'm using zips on a few Linux Servers, Solaris and HP-UX and had no problem so far. _Very_ old gunzip had a few problems, but I'm not sure if we have to consider them.
In any case there is still the fallback to use 'jar -x' to unzip a modern zip ;) LieGrue, strub --- On Mon, 10/12/09, Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Jason van Zyl <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Maven 3.0: just shipping a zip > To: "Maven Developers List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, October 12, 2009, 8:35 AM > Sorry, I don't grok that sentence at > all. > > On 2009-10-11, at 11:31 PM, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > > > 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] > > > > 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] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
