On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Kevan Miller <kevan.mil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2009, at 11:10 AM, sebb wrote: > >> On 23/11/2009, Andrus Adamchik <and...@objectstyle.org> wrote: >>> >>> On Nov 23, 2009, at 5:49 PM, sebb wrote: >>> >>> >>>> There is only a "bz2" archive. >>>> Normally projects release archives in zip andr tar.gz format which are >>>> more commonly supported. >>>> >>>> IMO, this is a release blocker >>>> >>> >>> Just curious why you think this is a blocker? Each project knows better >>> what formats are common and acceptable in the target user community. There's >>> no single distribution format and this is not a blocker IMO. >> >> The project OS targets include Windows, which does not support BZ2 >> natively by default, whereas Windows does now support Zip archives. >> >> AFAIK, all other ASF releases use both tar.gz and zip archives. > > Personally, I don't see how this is a blocking issue. It is unusual. However, > I leave it up to the VCL community to decide what archive format is meeting > the needs of their users. >
I agree with that, maybe it would be worth looking at having tar.gz and zips in later releases but this doesn't seem to me like a blocker for this one. I've reviewed the release artifacts and they look ok to me so +1 on the release. ...ant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
