On 16 Dec 2021 18:28, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > i like it for automake, and to help pull more of the ecosystem up to pax. > > I don't think "pulling more of the ecosystem up to pax" is such a good idea. > Pax is not a good format neither from the point of view of efficiency nor > from the point of view of safety. IMO pax extensions should be used with > frugality until it is replaced by a properly designed format (hopefully > before the year 2246).
i don't care about extensions, i care that the "gnu" format has known limitations in how it stores paths that "pax" fixes. so if you have an alternative that doesn't have these issues, and has a chance of being widely adopted like "pax", then now would be the time to highlight it. -mike
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