Stefan Bodewig wrote:
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Matthias Kilian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just noticed that actually paths of up to 256 characters should
be possible for regular files and directories in the standard USTAR
format:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html#tagtcjh_15
Maybe, but this is not supported by Ant (nobody wanted to contribute a
patch ;-)
Or write the tests, more to the point.
Xavier,
-the only people who will complain about tar skipping files will be
people on sysv unixes - Solaris, AIX, HPUX. The problem is that they
wont notice at unpack time, but some time later when they try to build
your app, or browse the javadocs, and find missing files.
-you can always *not* ship a tar file, give everyone a zip file, but set
the permissions on the zipfilesets so that if you unzip with the linux
port of zip then anything marked as executable gets the exe bit set. As
everyone with a JDK has the jar command, you can be sure that all
recipients will be able to expand it somehow.
I'm doing izpack installers @ work right now...there you create a JAR
containing 'packs', which can include zip files that are expanded at
install time. I'm trying to get my individual components to publish
their source, javadoc and jar files to ivy, then have a release project
that pulls them all in, feeding them to izpack. If I can get it working,
it will be a very nice process for packaging our redistributables.
-steve
