Is it typical at Apache for .gz files to be distributed too? I know that whenever I've done releases, I have only done .zip files.
Paul On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > > I personally think that not having a tar.gz will be very "unnatural" for unix > folks and will cause a barrage of "where's the unix build?" emails to users@ > and such. > > To me, there is no downside of having it. It takes an extra couple seconds to > build and upload. Who cares? But the potential for annoying unix > "purists" that won't touch that "windows stuff", would be a downside of not > having it. > > That, and pretty much none of my older Solaris and AIX boxes have unzip. :-) > > My $0.02. > > Dan > > > > On Sun October 11 2009 11:07:32 pm Jason van Zyl 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] >> > > -- > Daniel Kulp > [email protected] > http://www.dankulp.com/blog > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
