On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Viktor Szakáts wrote: > continues about the mingw project. First they use .lzma > extension instead of well-known .7z. Fine. Then they insist
they are by far not the same. .lzma to .7z is what .gz is to .zip, > on using .tar inside the .7z file, which is a solid archive > anyway, so .tar doesn't give any size advantages. Then they hence the need for a container, which they chose to be tar (probably because 7z can't, or they thought it can't store attributes they needed) (it probably can). > insist on using *nix links inside the .tar meant for > the Windows platform which doesn't have support for such > links. technically, it does, has had for quite some time. practically, if i had to pick between using these features of ntfs and the cheese greeter, i'd probably pick the cheese greeter. -- [-] mkdir /nonexistent _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
