Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Zipper state

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Tuesday, February 14, 2012 10:01 CET, Riccardo Mottola <address@hidden> 
wrote: 
 
> 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.

I had the same problems, but fixed them away with patches in the OpenBSD source 
tree.

> 
> Tar handling
> GNU-tar : mostly worked, but date parsing was bad

same here for me.

> 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.

Same here for me on OpenBSD. I did not found a good way to parse the dates for 
the 
BSD tar. Maybe we should just not support it? On OpenBSD, I patched Zipper to 
default
to use the GNU tar. (which is installed anyways, due to the gnustep-make 
package requires
gnu tar)

> 
> 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.

I'll check in the next couple of days in OpenBSD and openSUSE, I'll also test 
with some other archivers.

Sebastian
> 
> Riccardo