"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
>
> >> If that is indeed the suggestion, it wouldn't work because certain
platform
> >> require files in a certain format (line-endings, multiple forks, etc)
that
> >> would not be portable anyway.
> >
> >  Not if you provide the source in different archive formats (see my
answer
> > to Christoph): zip AND tar.gz for instance.
>
> But that still renders sources archived with some formats unusabled on
some
> platforms.  Thus it doesn't make any sense.

IMHO that does make *some* sense... IIRC, zip archives do have a notion of
'text' (vs. binary) files. So, properly done, zip decompressor should be
able to produce platform-specific source (== text, honoring platform's CR/LF
convention etc.) files on each given platform -- from a *single* archive.

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