Re: [VOTE] Tika 0.1-incubating Release Candidate 2

[Niall Pemberton <ni...@gmail.com>]

On Dec 31, 2007 6:21 PM, Chris Mattmann <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
> Hi Niall,
>
> >
> > I still think tika should be "tagging" releases rather than using a
> > branch and that zip distros would be good for windoze users. Also
> > minor nitpick that the source distro includes tika.log - which is
> > generated when building the binary.
>
> Your concerns are noted: however, in my mind, branch, then tag is a better
> practice, and that's what we're going with for 0.1.
>
> As for the *.zip distros, also dually noted, however, I think with the
> pervasiveness of free programs that handle .tar.gz files on Windows (e.g.,
> 7-zip [1], and Cygwin [2]), that *.tar.gz files should no longer really be
> an issue.

True but isn't it about making it as easy as possible for users - not
requiring them have or download other s/w first? Tika already has
assembly descriptors which produce both tar.gz and zip format source
and binary distros - so  at the cost of a minute or two for the RM to
run one command doesn't seem too much. Perhaps the next release could
use them.

Niall

> Thanks for the comments!
>
> Cheers,
>   Chris
>
> [1] http://www.7-zip.org/
> [2] http://www.cygwin.com/