Hi Charlie, On Monday, September 25, 2017 10:25:20 PM CEST Charlie Sale wrote: > Does this mean that an API should not be developed for GNU tar, but > instead for GNU paxutils?
I don't think that the library location matters too much. I just think that the library shouldn't be just "separate product", but also the low-level cornerstone for /bin/tar. And paxutils git more or less served this purpose. > If this is the case, should I be talking to paxutils instead? That's the same upstream (Sergey and Paul here on the bug-tar list). > Also, if I did go ahead and develop an API for GNU tar only, would I be > able to just modify the existing modules, or do I have to reinvent the > wheel and more or less rewrite the entire project? I would really just > like to be able to add some data structures and remove global variables. Dunno, that's implementation detail the patch author should look at; as the patch author is going to defend the patch. Pavel
