Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] bsdtar works as fine as gnu tar

Kevin Hunter <hunteke -AT- earlham.edu>
Tue, 01 Feb 2011 14:16:57 -0500

At 12:18pm -0500 Tue, 01 Feb 2011, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

Seriously why not supporting bsdtar? It has a great effort is made to
make it gnu compatible in fact compatible with the largest possible
set of archive formats.
All the testing I have done with bsd tar shows it performs at least as
well as gnu tar.

As an outside observer, I find I agree with Baptiste. Though I don'tuse BSD Tar, and was slightly annoyed by the patch (only as implemented,not in spirit), I think it's actually good to, wherever possible andeasy, not depend on one toolset exclusively.

There is something to be said for GNU providing a robust toolchain thatis likely never to break, but for the simple 1-line change, and that itremoves a (minor) hurdle to developers coming from the *BSD platforms, Ithink it's a win. No sense in annoying our BSD brethren as they oftenadd high value to a development team.


Respectfully,

Kevin

Context

[Libreoffice] [PATCH] bsdtar works as fine as gnu tar · Baptiste Daroussin
- [Libreoffice] [PUSHED] bsdtar works as fine as gnu tar · Michael Meeks
- Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] bsdtar works as fine as gnu tar · Nguyen Vu Hung
  - Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] bsdtar works as fine as gnu tar · Baptiste Daroussin
    - Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] bsdtar works as fine as gnu tar · Kevin Hunter
    - Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] bsdtar works as fine as gnu tar · Nguyen Vu Hung
  - Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] bsdtar works as fine as gnu tar · Christian Lohmaier

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