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Oleg Sivokon commented on FLEX-38:
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This is what I'm trying to ask:
- the contents of two archives is not the same.
- but they seem to do the same thing for different OSs.
- there is almost no way to extract bzip archive to Windows correctly (it has 4
symlinks inside, symlinks are supported only since Windows Vista). On XP it
would probably try to copy the symlinked stuff (duplicating it), but if it is
recursive, it won't work.
Now, what I was thinking - what if someone builds on Windows using Cygwin or
gnuwin32 utilities and they want to build "as if it was on *nix" - will they
need this part of the SDK? Which is to say, if the script discovers it runs
inside Cygwin, it extracts the archive, but if it's CMD, then it skips it?
By the way, the archive is _huge_ so if Windows users don't need it entirely,
by removing it, you would remove something like 1/5 of the entire SDK download,
which may be a very welcomed change :)
> Build script requires sh on Windows
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> Key: FLEX-38
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-38
> Project: Apache Flex
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: Windows
> Reporter: Oleg Sivokon
> Assignee: Carol Frampton
> Labels: Build,Ant
> Attachments: build.patch, build.patch
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> There is a call to sh with automatically generated shell script that was used
> to untar the AIR archive. On Windows it wouldn't work and on Linux it would
> unpack with the permissions given to the user of the terminal, rather then
> the permissions given to Ant user (files created would be protected for Ant
> script later).
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