Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-incubator-geronimo-dev-archive@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 83064 invoked by uid 500); 26 Aug 2003 17:50:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact geronimo-dev-help@incubator.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Reply-To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org Received: (qmail 83001 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2003 17:50:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO dsl-217-155-97-61.zen.co.uk) (217.155.97.60) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 26 Aug 2003 17:50:34 -0000 Received: from apple.int.bandlem.com ([10.0.0.20] helo=ioshq.com) by dsl-217-155-97-61.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19rhxi-0003iM-00 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:50:35 +0100 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 18:50:42 +0100 Subject: Re: About patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Alex Blewitt To: geronimo-dev@incubator.apache.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N On Tuesday, Aug 26, 2003, at 18:08 Europe/London, Jason Dillon wrote: > This is my personal opinion, but I would prefer patches to be > submitted relative to the project root. Looks like most patches have > been, so no big deal there. However attachments of new files in JAR > format are a pain. ZIP or TAR GZ files would be much easier to > handle, with files relative to the project root. JAR files /are/ ZIP files. They just use a different extension. Creating files relative to the project root is easy enough; however, if you use broken tools like WinZip then it may silently take off the top-level directory without informing you. Command line tools (tar, jar) don't have that problem. Alex.