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Posted to fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org by "Pier P. Fumagalli" <pi...@betaversion.org> on 2001/07/10 17:50:13 UTC

FW: FOP 19 zip file

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From: Joy Andree <jo...@ansys.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:29:07 -0400
To: "'webmaster@xml.apache.org'" <we...@xml.apache.org>
Subject: FOP 19 zip file

Could you please put in the download section a zip file for the new FOP 19
like you did for 18.

Thanks
Joy Andree
Publication Specialist

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Re: FW: FOP 19 zip file

Posted by Arved Sandstrom <Ar...@chebucto.ns.ca>.
My argument for not providing the ZIP this time around was exactly what Petr 
just said, size, and the knowledge that on any common system that people are 
likely to have, they can handle a .tar.gz.

I am currently finding out if there are any special circumstances warranting 
a ZIP release. If not, I will probably put a Readme up in the "dist" folder 
with a descriptive name, explaining why you don't need a ZIP.

In any case, I'll bet that this particular case is one of a person just not 
knowing what a tarball is. Ironically, once they download it, they could 
double-click it and unpackage with WinZip just as easy as if it was ZIP, and 
they wouldn't even know the difference. Because I'll guarantee this is a 
person on Windows.

Regards,
Arved Sandstrom
 
At 06:40 PM 7/10/01 -0500, Weiqi Gao wrote:
>On 10 Jul 2001 23:11:30 +0200, Petr Andrs wrote:
>>
>> Why? tar.gz is much smaller and does the job as well.
>> 
>> Pier P. Fumagalli wrote:
>> > 
>> > ------ Forwarded Message
>> > From: Joy Andree <jo...@ansys.com>
>> > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:29:07 -0400
>> > To: "'webmaster@xml.apache.org'" <we...@xml.apache.org>
>> > Subject: FOP 19 zip file
>> > 
>> > Could you please put in the download section a zip file for
>> > the new FOP 19 like you did for 18.
>
>You cannot untar a tar file created by GNU tar with any other tar
>command, for example the Solaris tar command, if there are files whose
>pathname exceeds 100 characters.
>
>For people who know this, the solution is right there, install GNU tar,
>or untar it on another machine with GNU tar, and move the directory
>structure over.
>
>For people who doesn't know this, it could be quite frustating.  They
>usually redo the download several times before realizing the problem
>lies elsewhere.
>
>-- 
>Weiqi Gao
>weiqigao@networkusa.net
>
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Re: FW: FOP 19 zip file

Posted by Weiqi Gao <we...@networkusa.net>.
On 10 Jul 2001 23:11:30 +0200, Petr Andrs wrote:
>
> Why? tar.gz is much smaller and does the job as well.
> 
> Pier P. Fumagalli wrote:
> 
> > 
> > ------ Forwarded Message
> > From: Joy Andree <jo...@ansys.com>
> > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:29:07 -0400
> > To: "'webmaster@xml.apache.org'" <we...@xml.apache.org>
> > Subject: FOP 19 zip file
> > 
> > Could you please put in the download section a zip file for
> > the new FOP 19 like you did for 18.

You cannot untar a tar file created by GNU tar with any other tar
command, for example the Solaris tar command, if there are files whose
pathname exceeds 100 characters.

For people who know this, the solution is right there, install GNU tar,
or untar it on another machine with GNU tar, and move the directory
structure over.

For people who doesn't know this, it could be quite frustating.  They
usually redo the download several times before realizing the problem
lies elsewhere.

-- 
Weiqi Gao
weiqigao@networkusa.net


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Re: FW: FOP 19 zip file

Posted by Petr Andrs <pa...@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>.
Why? tar.gz is much smaller and does the job as well.

pa

On 10 Jul 2001, at 16:50 Pier P. Fumagalli wrote about FW: FOP 19 zip file :

> 
> ------ Forwarded Message
> From: Joy Andree <jo...@ansys.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 10:29:07 -0400
> To: "'webmaster@xml.apache.org'" <we...@xml.apache.org>
> Subject: FOP 19 zip file
> 
> Could you please put in the download section a zip file for the new FOP
> 19 like you did for 18.
> 
> Thanks
> Joy Andree
> Publication Specialist
> 


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