There could be reasons to have both zip and tar.gz in the past, but as of 2025 tar.gz should be sufficient. It aligns with other ASF projects like Lucene, which distribute tar.gz only.
Yegor On Sat, Nov 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM PJ Fanning <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > The 2 files have the same contents. > It complicates the release. It's a possible issue that the 2 files > differ by accident. Reviewers on release votes need to validate both. > I don't think too many people who need the release files can only use > a zip or can only use a tar.gz file. > I would favour a tar.gz because that is what most ASF projects release. > > What do people think? > > PJ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
