On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 11:57 PM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote: > > On 20/01/2022 11:02, Mark Thomas wrote: > > On 19/01/2022 16:56, Rémy Maucherat wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 5:52 PM Emmanuel Bourg <ebo...@apache.org> wrote: > >>> Fortunately a non-reproducible javadoc isn't really important, what > >>> matters the most is to have reproducible executable packages. > >> > >> That seems like a reasonable statement ! > > > > Ack. I'll look at the Javadoc issue in slower time. > > > > I'm currently looking at reproducibility cross-platform. There seem to > > be differences in ordering for entries in archives. I need to figure out > > what the root cause is before I decide whether cross-platform > > reproducibility is worth pursuing further or not. > > I think I have figured this out. It is to do with ordering. > > Ant's zip task orders files by name and then places them in the archive, > adjusting the file separator as required. > > The issue is that on Linux you have: > > webapp/WEB-INF > webapp2/WEB-INF > > whereas on Windows you have > > webapp2\WEB-INF > webapp\WEB-INF > > Because in ASCII: > '/' is 0x2F > '0'-'9' is 0x30 to 0x39 > 'A'-'Z' is 0x41 to 0x5A > '\' is 0x5C > 'a'-'z' is 0x61 to 0x7A > > The different file separator between platforms causes the file order to > change. > > I have been working on fixing this here: > https://github.com/markt-asf/tomcat/commits/reproducible > > The biggest change is the removal of the applet example - but since that > doesn't work on any mainstream browser these days I think that is OK. > > I want to run a few more tests on this but, assuming they all pass, I'll > probably apply these changes tomorrow. They will likely be reorganised > when I do.
Nice tricks ! Rémy > I haven't looked beyond the src.zip archive yet. I imagine there might > be similar issues elsewhere. > > Mark > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
