Getting ride of bz2 is fine by me. Our release process is bad enough as it is without requiring MORE manual steps! ;)
Gary On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:44 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > The assembly descriptors are currently set up to create bz2 archives > in addition to the standard tar.gz and zip ones. > > Is the bz2 format really needed? > It's larger than the tar.gz, at least for sanselan. > And it's not as well supported on Windows. > > Note that the Commons Build Plugin does not currently support bz2, so > the download page would need to be manually editted after generation. > [In fact the existing download page does not link to the bz2 archives.] > > Or someone needs to enhance the Build plugin. > > Should not be too difficult to add support for a property to define > the archive suffixes, but is there any point? > Sanselan is the only commons component using bz2 currently. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > -- E-Mail: garydgreg...@gmail.com | ggreg...@apache.org JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: <http://goog_1249600977>http://bit.ly/ECvg0 Spring Batch in Action: <http://s.apache.org/HOq>http://bit.ly/bqpbCK Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com Home: http://garygregory.com/ Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory
