Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:36:00 +0100 From: Kai Wang <kaiwang27@gmail.com> To: Dag-Erling =?utf-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Call for testers] "BSD ar" Message-ID: <20080116233559.GA1114@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> In-Reply-To: <86wsq9icth.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20080111142336.GA1379@plan0.kaiwan.csbnet.se> <86wsq9icth.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Hi Dag-Erling, On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 12:13:30AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Kai Wang <kaiwang27@gmail.com> writes: > > I think it's time for "BSD ar" to get a public review after months of > > bug hunting and cleaning up done by jkoshy@ and me. The majority of > > the coding work was done during the summer of 2007 and was sponsored > > by Google SoC 2007 programme. > > Just one question: why wasn't this done in libarchive? Don't quite understand what you actually mean. This ar(1) is indeed based on libarchive's ar format support, (see archive_read_support_format_ar.c and archive_write_set_format_ar.c) which was initially coarsely implemented by me, later radically improved by Tim. ar(1) itself is barely a front-end. (command line option handler plus the cross-reference stuff) > (ar is basically just an archiving format, the cross-reference stuff is > an optional addition) True. jkoshy@ had this idea last year. That's the motivation of this reimplementation. -- Kai
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