Thanks Aldrin. I am not knowledgeable on Docker — do either of these options 
help us? We could also use a RUN to curl the Zip resource and COPY the unzipped 
directory?

[1] https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/15036#issuecomment-322177465
[2] https://github.com/jlhawn/dockramp <https://github.com/jlhawn/dockramp>


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> On Jun 28, 2018, at 6:22 PM, Aldrin Piri <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Be mindful to also update the Dockerfile used for Docker Hub as this will
> require some adjustments.  Unfortunately, the ADD instruction does not
> support zip files.  This isn't a major inconvenience but will require a
> multi-stage build to help keep our image size svelte.  I believe we should
> be safe as we have been publishing both tarballs and zips for prior
> releases, so the Dockerfile should still work in that scenario.
> 
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 4:06 PM Andy LoPresto <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for everyone’s input. It seems to be a clear consensus to eliminate
>> .tar.gz and only provide .zip moving forward. I’d like to keep this
>> discussion thread going for another day or two to field any objections.
>> After that time (Friday-ish), I’ll create a Jira to do this unless things
>> change.
>> 
>> I will probably keep the possibility to generate the .tar.gz through an
>> inactive profile to allow people who need that offering to use it. There
>> will be a subtask Jira to update the release guide moving forward as well.
>> 
>> 
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>> On Jun 26, 2018, at 7:52 PM, James Wing <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> It's a great idea, Andy, I strongly support just one format.  I think Zip
>> is a good choice.
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 11:16 AM Otto Fowler <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I end up using zip all the time.  zip +1
>> 
>> 
>> On June 26, 2018 at 13:30:33, Tony Kurc ([email protected]) wrote:
>> 
>> My preference is zip.
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 9:21 AM Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 6/25/18 11:34 PM, Andy LoPresto wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> I do not want to start a long-running argument or entrenched battle.
>> However, having just performed the RM duties for the latest release, I
>> believe I have identified a resource inefficiency in the fact that we
>> generate, upload, host, and distribute two compressed archives of the
>> binary which are functionally equivalent. For 1.7.0, both the .tar.gz
>> and .zip files are 1.2 GB (1_224_352_000 bytes for tar.gz vs.
>> 1_224_392_000 bytes for zip). The time to build and sign these is
>> substantial, but the true cost comes in uploading and hosting them.
>> While the fabled extension registry will save all of us from this
>> burden, it isn’t arriving tomorrow, and I think we could drastically
>> improve this before the next release.
>> 
>> I have no personal preference between the two formats. In earlier days,
>> there were platform inconsistencies and the tools weren’t available on
>> all systems, but now they are pretty standard for all users. This [1]
>> 
>> is
>> 
>> an interesting article I found which had some good info on the origins,
>> and here are some additional resources for anyone interested [2][3]. I
>> don’t care which we pick, but I propose removing one of the options for
>> the build going forward (toolkit as well).
>> 
>> That said, if someone has a good reason that both are necessary, I
>> 
>> would
>> 
>> love to hear it. I didn’t find anything on the Apache Release Policy
>> which stated we must offer both, but maybe I missed it. Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> I'm not aware of any ASF policy. I think it mostly stems from default
>> convention you get out of the maven-assembly-plugin.
>> 
>> [1] https://itsfoss.com/tar-vs-zip-vs-gz/
>> [2] https://superuser.com/a/1257441/40003
>> [3] https://superuser.com/a/173995/40003
>> [4] https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#artifacts
>> 
>> 
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