[ODE] ODE Question

[Rodrigo Hernandez]

Generating distribution files shouldn't be an issue anymore, with 
autotools you can build  3 distribution files (tar.gz,tar.bz2,zip) with 
"make release" (we need to check that the files contain all required 
files though), so please, no flame wars.

John Miles wrote:

>I already raised it a couple of years ago; it turns out that .tar.gz is some
>kind of religious thing with some folks, and they won't quit using it
>without a fight.  I do not pretend to understand the ways of the epicene
>gnomes of Unix, so I just switched to WinRAR and dodged the issue.
>
>-- jm
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>>On 2/27/06, John Miles <jmiles at pop.net> wrote:
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>>>WinZip has never handled .tar.gz files properly.  Plain old .zip is the
>>>standard under Windows.
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>>I agree that the source code should be zipped and not gzipped. If
>>another release of ODE is ever made I will raise the issue.
>>
>>Jason
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