Hello again everybody. I thought I would give you a little heads up on my API idea.
So my approach was taking all of the global variables and sticking them inside of a struct and then adding parameters to all of the functions so that they used the parameters instead of the global variables. After doing this for a little while, I concluded that what I was doing was very inefficient and the true solution was to rewrite the project, something that I simply will not do, because I risk breaking the project, which is something that I do not want to do. *So, I am halting my work on a tar-specific API*. However, I am interested in working on the pax project. I think that a tar-specific API is not really useful if it is being merged into a larger project. A pax api would be useful I think. Short sidebar: is ass...@gnu.org always really backed up? I sent in my form at least 3 weeks ago and I have gotten no reply. Do you agree with my thoughts? Do you want my help? Thanks, Charlie On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Charlie Sale <chucks.8...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
