On 4 November 2010 17:05, Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > On 04/11/2010 12:59, Brian Fox wrote: >> So I wonder why a tar.gz sourceball is needed and is it worth it to >> diverge just for that. > > How about users that want to work with sources on platforms where CRLF > endings are a PITA? > > Tomcat distributes sources in .zip and .tar.gz versions for exactly this > reason.
Also, if there were no tgz source, then a Unix user would need to download tgz binary and zip source. Potentially confusing. Tar.gz also tends to provide better compression. > Mark > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
