On Apr 4, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: > John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> writes: > >> Probably not. You can get a win32 binary at >> http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4-windows.zip > > Even better, the 'tar' we have on the builder doesn't support -J either. > How frustrating! Why did gnome do this? Or do they just not care about > Windows anymore? Yet another reason to punt Gnome/Gtk. Blah!
They did it because xz makes smaller archives than bz2, and they store a *lot* of archives. As for tar support, why does that matter? `foocat file.tar.fooz | tar xf -` works for all. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
