Re: [Module::Build] Archive::Tar file format

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Wednesday, January 7, 2004, at 03:08  AM, Jos I. Boumans wrote:

>
> On 7-jan-04, at 3:35, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>
>> 2) Most TAR decoding programs cannot see the PATH data, although the 
>> latest GNU TAR can
>
> yes, apparently (especially on windows) there's many clients that 
> follow an old(er) spec. Although i am still of the same opinion that 
> these clients are just inherintly broken ...

Let me reiterate that these clients are *NOT* IMO broken.  They 
implement the TAR spec, at the time of their writing, correctly.

The broken thing seems to be the updated TAR spec, which changed in 
such a way that any archive that uses the new features won't work with 
old clients.  That's really a terrible thing to do to a "standard".

  -Ken