On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 01:01:42AM +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 16.02.2016 um 20:06 schrieb Georg Baum: > > >I would formulate it differently: There is a problem with extracting the > >tar with the tool Uwe used. > > It is a simple path name length restriction. In the tar the path cannot be > longer than > > lyx-2.2.0beta2\3rdparty\boost\boost\numeric\conversion\detail\preprocessed\numeric_cast_traits_long_ > > These are 100 characters. All paths longer than 100 chars are truncated. > Since Windows itself does not support tar, I use WinRar. Maybe this program > has a bug or the tar specs have a limitation on Windows. > > However, the Zip is only 3 MB larger than the Tar. so why not using Zip in > future? I don't think that the 3 MB more are important.
Hopefully the tar issue is fixed now. I think it would be nice to keep using tar, since that is what we have been doing. If the tar does not work for you though, then we should indeed consider using zip. Scott
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