Re: Subversion 1.15.0-rc3 up for testing/signing

On Tue, 14 Jul 2026 at 18:18, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Longer term, we could think about getting to a state where our .tar.gz,
> .tar.bz2, and .zip all have identical content (generated once). Otherwise
> we risk potential inconsistencies: for example, if someone on Windows
> downloads subversion-1.14.5.tar.bz2 instead of .zip. And it also makes the
> release process more complicated, because there is at least 2x different
> content to check/verify.
>
>
> Unix tarballs are libtoolized and contain generated swig binding code and
> such. We don't need the libtool bits and don't support pre-generated
> bindings in the Windows build, so there's a reason why contents are
> somewhat different. And all the files within the .zip with
> svn:eol-style=native have CRLF line endings (that's why I use 'diff -qrw`
> to compare). The latter used to be required because 'cl' and 'msdev' and
> 'cmd.exe' didn't use to like just LF newlines in source and project files.
> I suppose that's no longer a concern?
>
> Visual Studio and 'cl' work fine with LF these days. I have tested 'cmd'
and it also works fine, but I won't put my finger on all possible tools.

With the addition of CMake, separate Windows and Unix tarballs may no
longer hold as an abstraction. Maybe we could just have a CRLF "Windows"
zip and LF "Unix" tar.gz with identical content?

-- 
Ivan Zhakov