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provide source as ZIP instead of TAR.GZ #124

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
It has come to my attention, that the sources are downloadable as a tar.gz 
files only. As a UNIX person, I like tar.gz, but as a Java developer, I would 
rather recommend ZIP. My motivation is as follows:

Most IDEs support that for each JAR that you add to the classpath, you can also 
specify a zip archive which contains the sources. The sources will be displayed 
during debug and you easily navigate to them by Ctrl+Click on a classname. 
However, most Java IDEs only support ZIP files. The reason might be, that Java 
IDEs like Eclipse and Netbeans are written in Java themselves, and that files 
within ZIP can be easily accessed since each file is once individual compressed 
stream.

So for future releases, I would like to see the sources in form of a zip file, 
so that the downloadable sources can be used directly with Java IDEs.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sven.koe...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2011 at 5:03