On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:03:46PM +1200, Ralph Versteegen wrote: > Popped in to celebrate with us? :) > > On 11 April 2013 13:44, James Paige <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, Mike! > > > > Actually, maybe we can avoid tar. I know we had reasons in the past, but > > they might have all evaporated by now. Originally I remember only > > wanting to use tools likely to be already installed on Linux/Mac, but > > Windows is the trouble-platform, and we have to bundle/download tools > > anyway. It is worth thinking over. > > I think the two reasons for using tar were to preserve executable file > bits and to preserve symlinks. Funny enough, tar.exe doesn't do either > properly. > > I looked through the commandline options that 7za supports and saw > nothing for file attributes or symlinks. So we're seemingly still > better off using tar.exe, at least for creating tars. Which maybe we > don't want to do.
What I would really love to do is create a .dmg file but I have never seen a command-line tool to do that on Windows. > >> Or, alternately the tar format doesn't seem that complicated. Maybe a > >> highly specialized version is in order? > > > > These sound like the words of a man who hasn't read any tar file format > > docs... or maybe I should say those sound like the words *I* spoke > > before I had read any tar file format docs :) > > Yes, just look at what happened to tar.exe when it tried to read BSD > tar files! This is an ancient file format seemingly with some weird > quirks. > > > --- > > James > > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 08:22:24PM -0400, Mike Caron wrote: > >> Hi guys, long time no see. > >> Is there some reason you're still using tar? Wouldn't it be easier to > >> just > >> bundle 7zip or something? I understand that it supports tar. Probably a > >> few other formats too. You can obtain the console version here. > >> Or, alternately the tar format doesn't seem that complicated. Maybe a > >> highly specialized version is in order? > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 1:29 PM, James Paige <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 09:52:23AM -0700, James Paige wrote: > >> > I was almost finished releasing beelzebufo, when I was puzzled and > >> > displayed to discover that Mac App game bundles build on Windows do > >> not > >> > work. If you build them on mac, they work fine. > >> > > >> > Here is the crash message: > >> > > >> > http://pastebin.com/jhu5H4b8 > >> > > >> > It looks like the problem has something to do with the SDL > >> framework, > >> > but I don't understand how this would fail on windows because there > >> are > >> > no more symlinks. > >> > >> "dismayed" not "displayed" > >> > >> I took the working app build on a Mac and compared it to the broken > >> app > >> built on Windows. I discovered that > >> > >> Contents/FrameWorks/SDL_mixer.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/mikmod.framework > >> is empty in the broken app. > >> > >> I tested tar.exe from the command line, and discovered that when it > >> unpacks ohrrpgce-mac.minimal.tar it incorrectly unpacks several of the > >> subfolders into the current directory, instead of where they belong > >> under the OHRRPGCE-Game.app folder heirarchy. > >> > >> So the short answer is that this bug is, yet again, another instance > >> of > >> the windows port of tar.exe being a worthless piece of crap :( > >> --- > >> James > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Ohrrpgce mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org > >> > >> -- > >> Mike Caron > > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Ohrrpgce mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ohrrpgce mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org > _______________________________________________ > Ohrrpgce mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org > _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
