On Monday, June 03, 2013 14:13:26 Walter Bright wrote: > On 6/3/2013 12:50 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 12:38 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: > >> On 6/3/2013 8:59 AM, Russel Winder wrote: > >>> Is there a tarball or only this infamous zipfile? > >> > >> I can't believe it is hard to create a tarball from a zipfile. > > > > Actually it can be since tarballs can represent symbolic links whereas > > it appears zipfiles cannot. > > 1. unzip the zip file > 2. add symbolic links > 3. create tarball
But why create it as a zip file in the first place? Just create the tarball correctly when it's built and don't create a zip file at all. Clearly, people other than you are going to be sorting this out, but we shouldn't even be creating a zip file for the non-Windows OSes in the first place. The symlinks should be created as part of the build and tar-ed from there. - Jonathan M Davis