Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] p7zip support

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:

> Would you please consider this patch for p7zip support?

The quick glance over the patch raises following concerns/questions:

1. It is not a good idea to use -I option, since it will break
command line compatibility with other tar implementations. The
proposed long option --p7zip should suffice. 

2. Where one can obtain sources for p7zip binary? The tarball
p7zip_4.30_src_all.tar.bz2 distributed from www.7zip.org does
not contain them. It builds 7za which is unusable as a tar
compression filter (it was discussed some time ago).

Regards,
Sergey