On Friday 22 of January 2016 14:20:20 Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> On Friday 22 of January 2016 07:32:50 Dave Cramer wrote:
> > This is a standard maven artifact. Jar files can be opened using zip tools.
> > If it is not usable in that state we can change it back although it adds an
> > additional step
>
> Ah, I thought that was not intentional.
>
> Tarballs are the standard for releases of wast majority of FOSS projects
> -- as the 'ustar' format is defined by POSIX (and is _really_ simple,
> compared to zip) it is available probably everywhere. Fore example,
> PostgreSQL and Maven themselves are distributed in tarballs.
>
> As I write you from GNU/Linux, I definitely prefer .tar.gz, but OTOH, this
> is probably not burning if nobody else cares -- I'm just surprised.
> I believe we are able to deal with jar/zip files.
Actually, I'm afraid that the content of the zip file is not
self-standing .. but I'm not sure.
For example, there is the full 'org/postgresql/..' file hierarchy, which
does not match what is in git. And also the pom.xml files are missing.
Is that expected? What is the expected way to build from the [1] release
zip file?
[1] https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-9.4.1207-sources.jar
Pavel
