[Gap-dev-discuss] Zipper state

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

I have found Zipper's state to be quite Abysmal. I checked the tar and 
zip handling for now.

Zip handling mostly works if the standard unzip is used. NetBSD uses an 
unzip which does not support -qq. Minor problem.
Date parsing did not work. I fixed it on my  box. But I fear that this 
has impacts on other computers? The parse strings were wrong.

Tar handling
GNU-tar : mostly worked, but date parsing was bad
bsd-tar: On NetBSD no archive could be opened, crashes exceptions. I 
fixed it. BSD tar has two date formats if the year is current or not. 
Also, there is a trailing line at the end.

It works for me now. But how was and is the state on OpenBSD? NetBSD? 
and other systems like Solaris?

A lot needs to be done and checked I fear... the code was/is quite fragile.

Riccardo