Given ample personal experience with this issue, all I can say is that actions speak a lot louder than words where it's concerned. :-)
On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 11:47 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote:I've given up trying to argue for a well-designed package file format. tar works well enough, I suppose. (Better than the oft-suggested 'zip' format. Ugh.)
Yes, people have pointed out to me before that email does not convey irony at all well. I should be more careful about that. <sigh>
As it turns out, Jordan, the major reason I've given up trying to argue for a new format is that I now believe that 'tar' is actually a pretty reasonable choice. (I think that the performance issues that people have complained about can be addressed by improving the pkg_* tool implementations without changing the file format. I've started working on that... ;-)
Tim
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