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

[Dan White]

Hi Luis,



>
> 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.

thats cool!

>
>
>
> 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.


hmmmmm.... maybe a zip file made in MacOSX using the tool in the  
finder (right click contextual menu)
makes a zip archive that unpacks in a usable fashion on windows....

all a bit over my head....

its just that novices like myself can easily make the mistake i did  
that the zip file would work on OSX.

Maybe in the mean time, just marking the .zip as windows only would be  
enough
to make the OSX user download the .tar.gz instead.

Dan


> --------------------------
> 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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Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
Senior Microscopist / Image Processing and Analysis
Light Microscopy Facility
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Pfotenhauerstrasse 108
01307 DRESDEN
Germany


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