Hi all, Laslo Hunhold wrote: > Dear Cág, > Even if a suckless implementation of GNU tar was possible, would you > really want it to be included? I'd rather like to encourage people to > use standard non-proprietary file formats.
Yeah, I think I would. tar(1) is one of those cases where a compromise between being suckless and being usable has to be found. suckless (or was it just you haha) made their own image format, for example, but there is a level of compatibility (i.e. jpg/png converters are bundled). You can say that JavaScript is bad and all but without it you can't browse the web. You can say the same about C++ but a modern Unix desktop can't exist without it. The compatibility article Hadrien linked claims that all examined variants support GNU tar. -- caóc
