Re: [Freedos-user] HIMEMX zip file dates

[Eric A. <e....@jp...>]

Hi Mercury and Jerome,

> I typically do modify the times to reflect the version number. Of
> course that's not necessary by any means, but it's a habit I started
> doing as a quick and easy contingency to help me in the event of files
> becoming crossed, e.g. if I were to accidentally drop files into the
> wrong version folder or some such errantry.
> 
> Is the preferred behavior to not touch the times? If so, I can
> certainly refrain from doing so in future packages. :)

Please preserve the timestamps of the original ZIP content.

Good to know that Jerome has a tool for that, bad enough
that GIT defaults to break timestamps without that tool?
When handling files outside GIT, timestamps stay as-is.

As you already add the LSM file, the handling date is
preserved as timestamp of the LSM in the ZIP. You can
even use ZIP -o to make the timestamp of the ZIP itself
match the timestamp of the newest file inside the ZIP.

In addition, I would still love the "release-cli" of
our GITLAB repository to create actual release notes.

At the moment, I only see WHICH packages got updated
when, but need manual "research" to find out WHY.

Regards, Eric

PS: I think DJGPP should stay available as separate download.
Most OTHER compilers are small enough to stay on the main CD.



>> (https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/HimemX/releases) was released
>> Nov 21, 2022 and has file contents like this:
>>
>> $ unzip -l HimemX338.zip
>> Archive: HimemX338.zip
>> Length Date Time Name
>> --------- ---------- ----- ----
>> 6056 11-21-2022 13:01 HimemX.exe
>> 6056 11-21-2022 13:01 HimemX2.exe
>> 1954 04-16-2020 06:38 Readme.txt
>> 4871 11-21-2022 13:01 History.txt
>> 81855 11-21-2022 13:01 HimemX.asm
>> 296 03-24-2020 01:56 Make.bat
>> 529 03-24-2020 01:58 Makefile
>> --------- -------
>> 101617 7 files



>> It looks like you modify the zip files when you mirror them. Your
>> version looks like this:
>>
>> $ unzip -l 3.38/himemx338.zip
>> Archive: 3.38/himemx338.zip
>> Length Date Time Name
>> --------- ---------- ----- ----
>> 0 09-23-2023 03:38 APPINFO/
>> 568 09-23-2023 03:38 APPINFO/HIMEMX.LSM
>> 0 09-23-2023 03:38 BIN/
>> 6056 09-23-2023 03:38 BIN/HIMEMX.EXE
...