sebb wrote: > Not relevant - the discussion is about what archives are supported by > the OS, not the development process. >
I thought it was about which archive formats an ASF release should be distributed in. All I ever recall reading in policy documents are requirements about the /contents/ of the release. For all I care it can be .shar.Z, if the project team feels that is what serves their users best. > Even Apache httpd (which is written in C) releases Windows archives in > Zip (and MSI) format. > Yup, so does APR, so does Subversion (but careful, the MSIs are not considered part of the official release in any of these projects). It just happens that (we) the developers decided that was best. -- Brane --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
