[Removed OGB-discuss; they likely don't care, and this is certainly off topic.]
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Brian Utterback <[email protected]> wrote: >> Perhaps it is because there is already a less powerful (but adequate?) >> tool already integrated that the interest is less. > > Isn't spending time on ntegrating less powerful programs a waste of time? > Please note that integrating star was decided _inside_ Sun even before GNU tar > was added. GNU tar is needed for Linux compatibility. Like it or not, there are a lot of GNU/Linux machines out there, and being able to read and write their files is pretty much a minimum requirement for a modern OS. Solaris tar is needed for compatibility with Solaris standard features, such as the Trusted Extensions attributes. Like it or not, having compatibility with previous Solaris releases is pretty important to the folks paying the bills here. pax has a similar argument. With all of those, it's unclear to many why anyone would really need yet another tar. Of course, if someone wants to integrate it anyway, I see no particular barrier to doing so. There's just no real need, so I can understand a lack of urgency. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
