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Re: tar maintainence
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:35:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: tar maintainence
- References: <42FE4C2B.8010905@byu.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 01:38:19PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>cgf last released tar 1.13.25 in Nov 2003. I've just built tar 1.15.1 in
>my sandbox with a one-liner tweak and autoreconf; are you interested in
>letting me become the tar maintainer? One of the nice features about 1.15
>is that it auto-recognizes the compression type of a .tar.* file, so that
>you don't need to use -Z, -z, or -j to extract them.
Sure, please take tar. I noticed the autodetection of the compressed
files on one of my linux boxes. I've had a new version sitting in my
sandbox for a while but I haven't taken the time to see if I got
everything right as far as binmode/textmode goes. I've been carrying a
few patches around that I've been remiss in submitting upstream since I
anticipated pushback.
I don't suppose that you want findutils, too?
cgf