On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 7:33 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15 December 2011 17:10, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 15 December 2011 16:58, Damjan Jovanovic <damjan....@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> I promised to start the Sanselan release process early this week, but > I've > >> been having problem after problem: > >> > >> 1. The instructions on http://commons.apache.org/releases/prepare.htmlsay > >> that you run a variation of "mvn install" to build the release... but > this > >> only generates the .jar files, not the src/bin zip/tar.gz/tar.bz2 files. > > > > Probably need to run package as well, but it's hard work doing it that > way. > > > >> 2. Running "mvn assembly:assembly" fails because my UTF-8 platform > locale > >> causes a multibyte bug in Plexus Archiver when writing a German sounding > >> filename into the src tar file. I reported this 3 year old bug and > >> submitted a patch (http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/PLXCOMP-195). How > did > >> you build Sanselan without this patch before? > > > > I just tried assembly:assembly (and single) with no issues. > > What is your platform locale? > Java version? > Maven version? > > Can you not use MAVEN_OPTS to override the locale? >
I am using Linux, Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 21:16:01+0200), with locale of en_ZA.UTF-8. You're probably on Windows, which uses a different locale, which doesn't generate any multi-byte characters, so everything's fine. Alternatively, perhaps the oddly-named files should be renamed to omit > the accents etc. > They may well cause unnecessary grief for others... > > Are the actual names an essential part of the test suite, or is it > just the contents that matter? > > Just the contents, and I can rename it for now, but somebody should really fix Plexus Archiver and make Maven use the new version, otherwise this will just happen again in a different project.
