On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
OTOH, what about distribution "tarballs" in '.zip' format? They don't use tar at all ... Time to deprecate them maybe? Is anybody actually using them? And while at it, what about the even more obscure 'shar' format?
While I haven't manipulated a shar file in years, but zip is still the dominant archive format on MS platforms. It is quite common (and a good practice) for a project to distribute \n newlines in a tarball and \r\n newlines in a zip archive.
- Daniel
