-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm about to upload tar 1.19.90, which adds the --lzma command-line option. Should I make tar depend on the lzma package?
Arguments for: it already depends on gzip and bzip2. Also, there was talk on this list a while ago about switching to lzma, instead of bzip2, for files installed via setup.exe, since it gives the best compression ratios to decompression speed tradeoff among all the popular open-source generic-data compression algorithms. The --lzma option only works if lzma is properly installed. Arguments against: tar is in the Base category, so the default cygwin install would grow in size and lzma would graduate to base, even though it is still relatively new. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHx4H284KuGfSFAYARAoiRAKCOjuT/qe0b5Tle+yMvU7AfvN5AugCgtXdQ ChJz0zzjPOpV3xDATsT6bVo= =U4NI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----