Hi All, We regret to inform you that we will not be pushing through with the 1.3-incubating release.
We are going to address first the issues raised with the release, then do a 1.3.1-incubating release. Thanks, liit On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:58 PM, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 March 2011 09:40, Troy Howard <thowar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Regarding: > >> I cannot read the tar.gz files with my normal tools (hexdump shows > >> that they are in RAR format), and the hashes have got spurious lines > >> in them which break automated checkers. > > > > Looks like you guys are a) building the release packages on Windows, > > and b) using Microsoft's FCIV tool to generate MD5 and SHA1 hashes. > > This is something I tried to do at first as well. > > > > To get a standard output for that, you should use the standard Unix > > tools... You can download gnu coreutils binaries compiled for Windows > > from here: > > > > http://s.apache.org/rV > > > > Install that package, and use the included md5.exe/sha1.exe programs > > to generate your checksums, and it will be exactly Apache's standard > > for that (instead of messing around with munging the output from > > FCIV).. Plus you get a bunch of other handy standard unix commandline > > apps without needingt to install cygwin... > > Given that the project currently uses Maven, would in not make more > sense to use Maven to create the archives and hashes (and sigs)? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > >
