>> continues about the mingw project. First they use .lzma >> extension instead of well-known .7z. Fine. Then they insist > > they are by far not the same. .lzma to .7z is what .gz is to .zip, > >> on using .tar inside the .7z file, which is a solid archive >> anyway, so .tar doesn't give any size advantages. Then they > > hence the need for a container, which they chose to be tar (probably > because 7z can't, or they thought it can't store attributes they > needed) (it probably can).
It's still an insane idea. Even .tar.gz is insane on Windows. OpenSSL source still cannot be untarred. It caused days of time wasting with cegcc. I could go on. Insane. >> insist on using *nix links inside the .tar meant for >> the Windows platform which doesn't have support for such >> links. > > technically, it does, has had for quite some time. I know it exists, but no tool can handle it. Tar for sure not. At least I couldn't find one in 10 years. > practically, if i had to pick between using these features of ntfs and > the cheese greeter, i'd probably pick the cheese greeter. Hm, what is a cheese greeter? :o Brgds, Viktor _______________________________________________ Harbour mailing list (attachment size limit: 40KB) Harbour@harbour-project.org http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour
