Yes, there is a lot of problems with it. Mainly it is so low level that it needs hundreds of lines of code to make something of feature parity even with the simplest bsdtar not to mention gnutar.
On Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 1:45:53 AM UTC-5 j-g-faustus wrote: > There is already a tar package: http://golang.org/pkg/archive/tar/ > Any problem with it? > > > On Nov 26, 7:01 am, Isaac <i...@isaacwagner.me> wrote: > > Hey folks, what you think of the usefulness of adding a tar package to > > the standard packages? > > > > There's already a gzip and a zlib library, and though the tar format > > fills a somewhat different role from these two formats, the theme is > > still the same. > > > > I personally think a package capable of tar'ing and untar'ing files > > would be a nice complement to the aforementioned libraries (tar.gz > > anyone?) > > > > P.S. I also think a bzip2 package would be nice. > > > > P.P.S. If there is interest in either of these, I would be interested > > in working on them. I think I'll get started on the tar package > > regardless, though. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/11025a1a-b1c5-4d78-8468-cf6e1c1d9f9an%40googlegroups.com.
