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?