Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-07 Thread Andrew Hills
On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Joerg Zinke wrote: > toki pona to the rescue! http://en.tokipona.org/wiki/Dark_teenage_poetry I'm sold. --Andrew Hills

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-07 Thread Strake
On 07/11/2012, hiro <23h...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Which languages qualify as suckless? > > C, body language. Language

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-07 Thread hiro
> Which languages qualify as suckless? C, body language.

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-07 Thread Strake
On 07/11/2012, Joerg Zinke wrote: > Loglan is way to over-engineered and bloated. > toki pona to the rescue! "Training your mind to think in Toki Pona can lead to many deeper insights about yourself or the world around you." [1] Well, it can lead to many shallow insights about its creator. [1]

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-07 Thread Strake
On 06/11/2012, Alex Hutton wrote: > Which languages qualify as suckless? Only Unicode-extended Lazy K. λ is for wimps.

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-07 Thread Joerg Zinke
On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 09:07:03PM -0500, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 12:58:09PM +1100, Alex Hutton wrote: > > Which languages qualify as suckless? > > Loglan for new development, English for legacy support. > Loglan is way to over-engineered and bloated. toki pona to the rescu

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread pmarin
Obviously C. Also you have to love Xlib, GTK+ and vintage console terminals. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:58 AM, Alex Hutton wrote: > On 7 November 2012 03:00, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: >> >> >> > b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_; >> >> >> No. There was only one person pretendi

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Brandon Invergo
> Which languages qualify as suckless? Only Brainfuck. Anything more is superfluous.

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread KarlOskar Rikås
C++ & Java. On Nov 7, 2012 2:58 AM, "Alex Hutton" wrote: > On 7 November 2012 03:00, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > >> >> > b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_; >> >> >> No. There was only one person pretending go to be suckless because of >> its pseudo Plan 9 heritage. >> >> > Wh

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Kai Hendry
On 7 November 2012 09:58, Alex Hutton wrote: > Which languages qualify as suckless? Have you not noticed http://hg.suckless.org/ ?

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Kurt H Maier
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 12:58:09PM +1100, Alex Hutton wrote: > Which languages qualify as suckless? Loglan for new development, English for legacy support. Hope this helps

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Alex Hutton
On 7 November 2012 03:00, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > > > b...but I though Go was suckless? ;_; > > > No. There was only one person pretending go to be suckless because of > its pseudo Plan 9 heritage. > > Which languages qualify as suckless? Cheers, Alex

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Nick
Quoth Galos, David: > For what it's worth, I'd submitted a patch (attached) to Gottox, the > guy who wrote sltar, which added creation support, but he never wound > up applying it. cls wrote really good clean create support for sltar, I'm pretty sure. He should have copied the code into sbase, bu

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Galos, David
For what it's worth, I'd submitted a patch (attached) to Gottox, the guy who wrote sltar, which added creation support, but he never wound up applying it. With that, and pipes to gzip, or bzip2, you can have all the tar functionality you know and love. But, at the same time, plan9 tar works well,

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 6 November 2012 11:00, Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> wrote: > Greetings. > > On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:06 +0100 Andreas Krennmair > wrote: > > * Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> [2012-11-06 16:20]: > > >On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair > wrote: > > >> Hello everyone,

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:00:06 +0100 Andreas Krennmair wrote: > * Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> [2012-11-06 16:20]: > >On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair > >wrote: > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic >

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Andreas Krennmair
* Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> [2012-11-06 16:20]: On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair wrote: Hello everyone, Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also 'ridiculously abysmal

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Christoph Lohmann
Greetings. On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 16:10:33 +0100 Andreas Krennmair wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Yesterday, out of frustration and boredom, I started a minimalistic > implementation of tar in Go which I named rat ('tar' reversed, but also > 'ridiculously abysmal tar'). Today, I reached a point whe

Re: [dev] [announce] rat - ridiculously abysmal tar

2012-11-06 Thread Truls Becken
On 2012-11-06, at 12:00, Andreas Krennmair wrote: > It currently supports the tar operations c, t and x (which makes it a bit > more useful than sltar) and the options -f, -C, -v, -z and -j (for > decompression only). Cool. Did you consider auto detecting compression from file name and/or conte