On 11/13/05, Phil Steitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/13/05, Mario Ivankovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi Stephen!
> >
> > Thanks for your review.
> >
> > > The release notes cover changes in RCs. For a 1.0 release, the release
> > > notes should be clean and state that this is the first full release
> > > (except if the software is already in really widespread use). There is
> > > no real need to detail other changes unless you feel its essential.
> > Ok, I'll clean it up if I create the 1.0 jar.
> >
> > > The text files included in the release are all unix line endings. This
> > > causes windows downloaders no end of trouble as we (unlike unix
> > > developers) don't have easy access to eol dos2unix. One popular
> > > solution is for zips to be windows eol, and tars to be unix. This
> > > requires a custom ant script not a maven generated one
> > I've checked "collections", "httpclient", "net", "transaction" and
> > "configuration". Only "collections" provide such a "service".
> > Every major IDE is able to handle those files, and even text editors
> > (other than notepad) on windows are able to view such files.
> >
> > However, if we would like to start having this now I am willing to do
> > so, what do other developers say?
> > If we do so, I would like to see some support for this in maven as I use
> > maven for distribution.
>
> This is being tracked as MPDIST-27.
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MPDIST-27

Has now been fixed in svn.
So if you checkout the latest maven 1 dist plugin sources from
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/maven/maven-1/plugins/trunk/dist/
and then do
maven plugin:install from the dist plugin directory, maven dist will
put windows style line endings in the zips.

Phil

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to