On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Paul Burba <[email protected]> wrote: > Minor issue, but > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/subversion/subversion-1.8.0-rc1.zip > differs from > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.8.x@1478983 > in an unexpected way. The links in these two svnpubsub files are > resolved:
Thanks for noticing this. I guess this is now an expected difference of the zip. Storing symlinks in zip files is not portable. So Info-Zip converts symlinks into normal files. There is a --symlinks option which would store the symlinks, but I'm pretty sure this would limit what software was capable of expanding the file. Given that the zip file is intended for Windows users, which are almost certainly unable to do anything with symlinks, I think what Info-Zip does in this case is fine for us.
