Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not to put down the work you have done, but we've just switched to Tim's
> BSDtar
> so it seems unlikely that we would swiitch again right now.
> We have unfortunatly an embarrasment of riches when it comes to tar.
> Too may good implementatiosn to choose from.. One would be good,
> 2 is going to make sure someone misses out. :-/
>
> One good thing with Tim's implementation is the library. It allows us to
> embed tar/cpio/pax capabilities directly into applications such as pkg_add.
There are plans to make star a library too. However this takes some time
for a program that uses global variables since 23 years....
The current state is something between a stand alone program and a lib.
Look into star/gnutar.c to see how to build a shell for the star code.
Jörg
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