From: Bruce W. <br...@mi...> - 2000-08-09 01:28:17
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> My thoughts were that a standard Linux TARBALL (e.g > misterhouse_src_224.tar.gz) > would provide linux/unix folks with a more "standard" install > package and may > provide some benefits in keeping DOS and LINUX dependent code separated. > Whether it adds enough value to offset the administrative work is > a question. Not running zip -a seems to be a common enough problem that we probably should offer a tar.gz version. The only part I'm not sure about is how to strip those nasty /r CR characters. I don't think that tar command I have has that. The zip command DOES have that (-ll), but I have not been using it because it messes up the windows only binary files. So we either make a unix zip file with the -ll option, and skipping the windows binaries, or we write or find code that srips the CR chars before I tar it. I'll give this some more thought for the next release. > used the DOS version of MisterHouse, but it would lay the groundwork for a > self-extracting ZIP file if this is not already in use. Votes on this one? Would misterhouse_src_###.exe be better than a .zip file? |