This is what we had a long time ago but there was a request for tar distributions. If it turns out that the old posix tar implementations that for some reason have not been dropped as the default platform tar(this problem is at least 15 years old) cause problems for naïve users, perhaps we just need to stick with what works.
I doubt the source distributions are ever a problem. It is the unpacked deployments with nested classes that trigger the long path name requirement. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dimitris Andreadis > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 1:44 AM > To: jboss-development@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: QA > Subject: Simplifying the JBoss source/binary distributions > > > 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
