Currently we produce bz2, tar.gz for the sources and bz2, tar.gz, .zip for the binary distros.
There are issues with users using non-gnu tar (for the tar.gz distros) that doesn't support long filenames, etc., and at the same time, if you look at the download pages only 5-15% will use the bz2/tar.gz distros and there are projects (e.g. EJB3) that only distribute .zip without problems. We are thinking of just dumping all extensions except for .zip. It's what people mostly use, and most installations will have an unzip/winzip utility, or a jdk whose bin/jar can unzip the distro anyway. It'll make QA's life a little easier, too. The only dissadvantage AFAIK is .zip doesn't keep the execution bits of files (e.g. .sh) so those have to be set manually after un-ziping (but that's a trivial chmod +x bin/*.sh) Any views? jboss-4.0.4RC1-installer.jar 59104072 20249 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1-installer.jar.MD5 32 414 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1-installer.jar.SHA-256 64 174 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1-src.tar.bz2 61600096 714 Platform-Independent Source .bz2 jboss-4.0.4RC1-src.tar.bz2.MD5 32 62 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1-src.tar.bz2.SHA-256 64 48 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1-src.tar.gz 65326480 1523 Platform-Independent Source .gz jboss-4.0.4RC1-src.tar.gz.MD5 32 64 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1-src.tar.gz.SHA-256 64 38 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1.tar.bz2 76605812 812 Platform-Independent .bz2 jboss-4.0.4RC1.tar.bz2.MD5 32 49 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1.tar.bz2.SHA-256 64 39 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1.tar.gz 81379037 1700 Platform-Independent .gz jboss-4.0.4RC1.tar.gz.MD5 32 50 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1.tar.gz.SHA-256 64 33 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1.zip 82323401 13867 Platform-Independent .zip jboss-4.0.4RC1.zip.MD5 32 198 Platform-Independent Other jboss-4.0.4RC1.zip.SHA-256 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ JBoss-Development mailing list JBoss-Development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-development
