[Insight-users] Re: bug 0005991 DOS carriage returns in ITK .zip release cause problems on OS X / unix from

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for your comments on this bug entry:


      http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=5991


Here is a short descrition of the status:

When we package ITK we do the following:

a) checkout the CVS version in a windows system and zip it.
b) checkout the CVS version in a Linux system and tar.gz it

That's why the .zip package has DOS ends of line.

We could of course add a (c) where we checkout the code in
a Linux system, and zip it, or check it out in Mac and zip it.
but the we will have to explain Windows users why the zip file
has Unix ends-of-line... Which, again will come down to editing
our web page to say something like:

a) Package for Mac: ITK-Mac.zip
b) Package for Linux: ITK.tar.gz
c) Package for Windows: ITK-Windows.zip
d) Package for Sun: ITK.tar.gz (because Sun has a broken tar tool)

and so on...

On the long run this problem will be solved by using CPack and packaging
the release in a packaging method that is native for every platform.


In the meantime...here is the question:

Is there a way of creating a .zip file that will work fine both
in MacOS and in Windows ?

If so, we will be happy to follow that method.


   Please let us know if you could suggest a way of doing this,


     Thanks


        Luis

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Dan White wrote:
> Hi Luis
> 
> re bug 0005991
> which i think you just closed?
> 
> On Mac OSX the default archive format in the Finder is tio make .zip  
> files.
> So many users are getting used to being able to use zip on OSX.
> There is little sense in saying zip is only for windows,
> and tar/gzip is only for unix.
> Is there a reason why the contents of the zip and tar/gzip archives  
> should be different once they are unpacked? I think not.
> This caught me out on OSX and it took a while and some hacking and  help 
> from the lsit to figure out the problem.
> There is not info on the download page that says th ezip of only for  
> windows, and all other OSs should use the tar/gzip archive. One  assumes 
> that both archives contain exactly the same contents, and that  they are 
> not platform specific, which they should not be.... right?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Dan
> 
> 
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