On 6/3/2013 5:34 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
But why create it as a zip file in the first place?
Because creating tarballs on Windows is a big problem, not the least of which you can't create symlinks on Windows, so even if you found a working Windows tar program you still haven't solved the problem.
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.
It isn't any harder creating a symlink after unzipping than it is creating one before creating a tarball.
