On Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:15:21 +0300 Jalal Almutawa <jalal.almut...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey Jalal, > As a newcomer who have seen the problems that your philosophy > addresses myself, I took a look at ways to get involved, and saw this > listed project idea to extend sltar with bzip2 and gzip functionality. oh yeah, the project idea page needs a makeover. This has already been done in sbase tar[0]. What do you guys think? Imho, we should get rid of sltar. Any objections? > I started to give it a shot, and then got a bit confused as to why > this is required, since one can pipe the resulting tar to any > compression tool instead of making sltar bigger by incorporating this > functionality in the code. This will also leave the floor open to the > users to pick the compression tool they like, instead of having to > choose from bundled options. That's exactly what we did in the end. :) Cheers Laslo [0]: http://git.suckless.org/sbase/tree/tar.c -- Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de>
