Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 19:34:09 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD tar (was Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types...) Message-ID: <3E8908B1.1080100@acm.org> References: <E587D7D9-62EA-11D7-87B7-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com>
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Jordan K Hubbard wrote: > Given ample personal experience with this issue, all I can say is that > actions speak a lot louder than words where it's concerned. :-) > > On Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 11:47 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote: >> I've given up trying to argue for a >> well-designed package file format. >> tar works well enough, I suppose. >> (Better than the oft-suggested >> 'zip' format. Ugh.) Yes, people have pointed out to me before that email does not convey irony at all well. I should be more careful about that. <sigh> As it turns out, Jordan, the major reason I've given up trying to argue for a new format is that I now believe that 'tar' is actually a pretty reasonable choice. (I think that the performance issues that people have complained about can be addressed by improving the pkg_* tool implementations without changing the file format. I've started working on that... ;-) Tim
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