If the tar archives are under utilized we could "hide" them in a different section of sourceforge.
That way, people that know about them and want to use them could be directed to it. I think it is more a problem for people with slow connections which explains they are under utilized nowadays. On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 12:23 -0600, Scott M Stark wrote: > 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 > > -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Adrian Brock Chief Scientist JBoss Inc. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------- 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
