Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/26/2013 12:42 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> I think that the '-I' should define perfectly the program return values.
> So the -I /usr/bin/gzip could be considered like bad usage - and tar
> behaves like this now.

But with the proposed approach, -I /usr/bin/gzip behaves differently
from -I gzip.  Isn't that confusing?

> I'm partly against
> this because it complicates tar's api & user is always able to write
> very simple wrapper

Good point.  So perhaps we shouldn't add that complexity.  Still,
it'd be better if we didn't have the sort of confusion illustrated
above, somehow.