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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0005489 | Composr alpha bug reports | [All Projects] General / Uncategorised | public | 2023-12-06 16:24 | 2024-07-31 19:07 |
| Reporter | Patrick Schmalstig | Assigned To | Chris Graham | ||
| Severity | Major-bug | ||||
| Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 0005489: Make release: tar on Windows 11 "option --force-local is not supported" | ||||
| Description | Later builds of Windows 10, and Windows 11, come with their own tar which does not support --force-local. This causes make-release to fail. However, we can't just assume everyone building Composr on Windows has the Windows tar which doesn't support --force-local, so we can't remove it. But we also can't assume vice versa, so we can't just leave it in there either. Modify make_release to handle both cases. | ||||
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temporary fix via https://gitlab.com/composr-foundation/composr/-/commit/0ab6279a603337319fcc11995679482c22ad87bb I added a force_local get parameter. Must be specified and = 1 to put --force-local in the tar command on Windows. |
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I think it's reasonable to assume core developers are running a newer version of Windows. The constituency is now just 1, it's reasonable to have a higher baseline for developers, it's reasonable for us to not even officially document it for core development situations like this that are just dealing with legacy situations. I'd just add a code comment saying "Tested to work on Windows version xxx, known to not run on versions older than yyy due to not having tar bundled." |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2023-12-06 16:24 | Patrick Schmalstig | New Issue | |
| 2023-12-06 16:24 | Patrick Schmalstig | Status | non-assigned => assigned |
| 2023-12-06 16:24 | Patrick Schmalstig | Assigned To | => Chris Graham |
| 2023-12-06 17:14 | Patrick Schmalstig | Note Added: 0008104 | |
| 2024-07-31 19:07 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0009020 |
