<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 6:44 AM David Haslam <<a href="mailto:dfhdfh@protonmail.com">dfhdfh@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Hi Greg,</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">It's unfortunate that all the files within the .tar have Modified Date = 1970-01-01 00:00</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Alaas, this is a side effect of using Nix. Nix uses a purely functional programming paradigm to define build results. Therefore, outputs must be completely deterministic based only on their inputs. Part of that includes having a deterministic Modified Date on the files, as basing that date on the current run date of the build would result in a different output every step.</div><div><br></div><div>I can spend some time looking at making the date an input parameter, but it might not be so simple.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">cf. That displays as blank in the <span style="display:inline;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Modified Date </span>column of Windows File Explorer!</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Strange that Windows doesn't properly handle Unix timestamp 0.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">NB. I've only inspected the download. I've not tried to use any of them.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for giving them a look! I appreciate the report.<br></div><div><br></div><div>--Greg<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Best regards,</div><div style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><div><br>David
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On Friday, October 18th, 2024 at 8:36 PM, Greg Hellings <<a href="mailto:greg.hellings@gmail.com" target="_blank">greg.hellings@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div>SWORD fam:</div><div><br></div><div>I've been working my way towards a new and more convenient way to build SWORD utils for Windows. You can read about the journey and how it's *almost* complete over on my blog: <a href="https://thehellings.com/posts/sword-cross-20241018/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://thehellings.com/posts/sword-cross-20241018/</a>. There is also a link, there, to download the binary.</div><div><br></div><div>It's a build of the latest release 1.9.0 rather than SVN head. Once I get the last few libraries working in the native upstream, I will put together a way to build SVN head. It's not difficult, I'm just focusing at the moment on enabling the cross build.</div><div><br></div><div>Those of you on Windows, if you could give them a spin, I would appreciate it. I verified that they're at least able to execute on my local system, but I don't have any real use for them on that machine to do any extensive testing. Although they might not be the very latest versions of the tools, themselves, they do come with the latest versions of the dependency libraries like libcurl and especially ICU.</div><div><br></div><div>--Greg<br></div></div>
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