Shapira, Yoav wrote:
What about dropping .tar.gz distros? I realize its files are smaller than zip, but every platform has zip support and I doubt many of our users (who are mostly developers for companies or open-source afficionadoes) are on dialup connections. Alternatively (this is what JonAS has done for example) we could just have .tgz files which the Windows Winzip can handle. This saves the release manager work and reduces user confusion slightly, as they are faced with less download choices. I see the latter (user confusion) increasing when we have JRE1.4 and JRE5.0 distros.
The major difference between the tar.gz and zip distros should be in line endings. Both sources, jsp's, readme's etc... in
zip distro should have the CRLF line endings,
OTOH the tar.gz needs only LF line endings.
Also the tar.gz should have 'rwx' attribs for scripts inside bin.
Think that users know that for nixes they should use tar.gz, and for windows .zip. We can also mark what is the actual difference between them (CRLF issue), and for what platforms they are meant to be used.
OTOH we can make a agreement what the line endings would be and keep only those. Only then we can drop particular distro.
Regards, MT.
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