Thanks, Bent (sorry about the mispelling)
Well, it looks like we have identified a possible issue. Winzip users would
probably normally download a .zip, but I still think it's worth somebody (the
jbossmq maintainer) checking in a dummy file to prevent this happening again.
Does he read this list ?
Thanks again for all the help on this one,
Jules
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> Jules,
>
> first, it's Bent, not Brent. I get that a lot though so I'm starting
> to get used to it :-)
>
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 09:06:38PM +0100, Julian Gosnell wrote:
> > Does the dir disappear from other distributions - or just the jboss-jetty one.
>
> I now downloaded
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/JBoss-2.2.2_Tomcat-3.2.2.zip
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/JBoss-2.2.2.zip
>
> and opened them in WinZip 7.0. Neither SHOWED the empty directory.
>
> WinZip lists files though and there doesn't appear to be any way it
> _could_ list an empty directory since directories are only listed as a
> side effect of files in those directories being listed.
>
> I extracted both of them as well, and then the directory DID appear,
> empty. So inconclusive so far.
>
> I then downloaded the following and tried them:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/JBoss-2.2.2_Jetty-3.1.RC5.zip
> directory NOT shown but DID extract (empty)
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/JBoss-2.2.2_Jetty-3.1.RC5.tar.gz
> directory NOT shown and NOT extracted
> (in contrast to the ZIP above)
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/jboss-jetty.2.2.zip
> This one had a bunch of files in the jbossmq directory in the distrib,
> so it DID show and DID extract.
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/jboss-tomcat-2.2.zip
> This one had a bunch of files in the jbossmq directory in the distrib,
> so it DID show and DID extract.
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/jboss/JBoss-2.2.2.tar.gz
> directory NOT shown and NOT extracted
> (in contrast to the ZIP above)
>
> I conclude that WinZip7 has trouble with tar archives and skips empty
> directories in them.
>
> Cheers
> Bent D
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