Thank you for your reply, it is good to know that I got the philosophy right at least :)
So, is there anything else that needs a helping hand (or eye)? The ticketing system looks nice, if it is still on. Regards, Jalal Almutawa On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Laslo Hunhold <d...@frign.de> wrote: > 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> >
