[Pyobjc-dev] Re: cvs snapshots?

[Michael H. <mw...@py...>]

Just van Rossum <ju...@le...> writes:

> Jack Jansen wrote:
>
>> I think the problem here is that gnutar and OSX-tar are not 100%
>> compatible. To make matters worse, once you use fink it will install
>> a GNU tar in 
>> /sw/bin
>> with the name "tar", and it obscures OSX tar. The result of this is
>> that you create tarfiles that cannot be read by people who have only
>> a basic OSX installation. I got bitten by this a while ago.

Although I still have bits of fink installed, I removed /sw/bin from
my path for exactly this sort of reason (in general I wish fink worked
more with the BSD tools as present in OS X rather than trying to slap
a GNU/Darwin system on top, but I guess this isn't the place for that
rant).

> Note that the snapshot tar files are created on a Linux shell box @ sf,
> but I have no idea what tar version that is.

It'll be GNU tar, no question.

Cheers,
M.

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