eclipse does all the work for you to creating patches.... very easy, and to
apply them too....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Blewitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: About patches


> On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 18:08 Europe/London, Jason Dillon wrote:
>
> > This is my personal opinion, but I would prefer patches to be
> > submitted relative to the project root.  Looks like most patches have
> > been, so no big deal there.  However attachments of new files in JAR
> > format are a pain.  ZIP or TAR GZ files would be much easier to
> > handle, with files relative to the project root.
>
> JAR files /are/ ZIP files. They just use a different extension.
>
> Creating files relative to the project root is easy enough; however, if
> you use broken tools like WinZip then it may silently take off the
> top-level directory without informing you. Command line tools (tar,
> jar) don't have that problem.
>
> Alex.
>


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