Ok. Thanks for your help. I think I have enough information to get started. I will probably work on tar only for now.
Thanks Charlie On Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 12:31 AM Pavel Raiskup <prais...@redhat.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- ~Charlie Sale
