Shibboleth Developers

[Brent Putman <>]

Well, I sidestepped the entire problem on the Windows system in 
querstion by gunzipping and untarring on a Unix system and then zipped 
it up for use on the Windows machine.  It wasn't my system, so I didn't 
feel right installing Winzip, etc just for that.   Since newer versions 
of Windows have native zip support built in, I would second the motion 
for a IdP zip package.

--Brent



Chad La Joie wrote:

> We installed an IdP on windows this weekend and didn't have this 
> problem, though Brent did comment to me that having a tar.gz file was 
> certainly inconvenient for Windows systems.  It's probably be a good 
> idea for us to create .zip packages, or if we just wanted one package 
> it should probably be .jar.
>
> As a side note, 7-zip works really well and supports a whole lot of 
> archival/compression formats.  It's what I use on Windows.
>
> http://www.7-zip.org/
>
> Howard Gilbert wrote:
>
> > The IdP is distributed only in the form of a .tar.gz archive. I have 
> > observed that using both Winzip 8.1 and 9.0 the file names generated 
> > by expanding this file on Windows are corrupted in a eight cases. A 
> > suffix of 0000770 or 0000660 is appended to the .java extension. I 
> > believe this is some kind of format disagreement between the tar 
> > being used to create the archive and Winzip.
> >
> >  
> >
> > However, Winzip is the overwhelming choice and standard in Windows. 
> > So much so that I would be hard pressed to suggest any other program 
> > generally available that one would use to expand tar.gz files. I 
> > propose that a .zip of this archive also be generated and stored in 
> > the distribution directory.
> >
> >  
> >
> > I know this is unexpected and invite anyone else to repeat the 
> > experiment to see if you do not end up with:
> >
> >  
> >
> > \src\edu\internet2\middleware\shibboleth\aa\arp\ArpRepositoryFactory.java0000770 
> >
> >
> > \src\edu\internet2\middleware\shibboleth\aa\attrresolv\ResolverCache.java0000660 
> >
> >
> > \src\edu\internet2\middleware\shibboleth\aap\provider\XMLAAPProvider.java0000660 
> >
> >
> > \src\edu\internet2\middleware\shibboleth\metadata\EntitiesDescriptor.java0000660 
> >
> >
> > \src\edu\internet2\middleware\shibboleth\serviceprovider\ShibBinding.java0000660 
> >
> >
> > \src\edu\internet2\middleware\shibboleth\utils\ant\XMenuInputHandler.java0000660 
> >
> >
> > \src\edu\internet2\middleware\shibboleth\utils\ClientCertTrustFilter.java0000660 
> >
> >
> > \src\edu\internet2\middleware\shibboleth\xml\SchemasResourceListImpl.java0000660