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Re: libpax?
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Joerg Schilling |
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Re: libpax? |
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Mon, 24 Jun 2002 23:06:35 +0200 (MEST) |
>From address@hidden Mon Jun 24 01:11:46 2002
>Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I don't understand why you like to be compatible to GNU tar?
>As a user, I would expect that GNU tar and GNU tarfs are compatible. As
>a devloper, I would feel responsible for providing this compatility. I
Being forced to be compatible to a proprietary TAR archive variant
looks like a M$ issue :-(
>would like to avoid making the GNU operating system be incompatible
>with itself. But maybe there are issues which I am not aware of; for
>example, I don't know how compatible GNU tar is (and will be) to other
>versions of itself.
Well, if you remove GNU tar and install star instead you would not have this
problem ;-)
>That is to say, my personal interest is to make tarfs be able to handle
>as many tar archives as possible in ways that please the users. I think
>this is a goal worth aiming at and is more important than pure standards
>compliance.
In former times, Application developers did know about the compatibility
problems with GNU tar and did create source packages using AT&T TAR-1978
compliant archives instead. SPreading GNU tar archives instead of using
standard compliant archives is a problem of the last two years.
>But of course, what eventually will happen depends on the paxutils
>developers and the people implementing tarfs. I wanted to raise the
>issue here to get the opinion of the paxutils people.
I did inform several TAR developers about the problems with their
programs last week. Let us see if they make their programs standard compliant
now that there is a program to check for compliance and people are able to
work and test repeatedly until all issued have been addressed.
Jörg
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