revel package: please support tar.{gz,bz2}

[stapelberg]

Using chmod every time after unpacking the updated zip file is annoying. By using a decent file format like tar.gz or tar.bz2, that would not be necessary.

[robfig]

Good point -- I used zip because it is "natively" supported on windows (and I recall the API to write zip files is more pleasant). Also, doing bash run.sh instead of ./run.sh doesn't seem too bad.

On the other hand, any Windows developers using go probably have some kind of MinGW / Cygwin situation, which would provide them with tar as well.

Sounds like a good change to make.

[stapelberg]

Re: using bash run.sh:

I am deploying all my stuff using systemd, where you specify an absolute path to the binary you want to run. In my case that is /opt/piksku/run.sh, which is much clearer than /usr/bin/bash /opt/piksku/run.sh.

Another thing I’ve noticed is that the timestamps of the files are all wrong (e.g. "-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 482 1985-08-14 00:00 app.conf"). Is that an oversight or another implication of using zip files? It might be bad for the Last-Modified HTTP mechanism, e.g. when you edit a file on the production server (it’s a no-no, but people probably still occasionally do it), then later edit it locally with different changes and deploy a new package. The client would not get the new file in that situation.