Re: [Bug-tar] Software Proposal

[Charlie Sale]

Pavel,

I did some reading about paxutils on the gnu site. It sounds like an interesting project. I cloned the repository to look around and see what is happening. On their site, It said that, at the moment, code is being migrated from tar to paxutils. Does this mean that an API should not be developed for GNU tar, but instead for GNU paxutils? If this is the case, should I be talking to paxutils instead?

Also, if I did go ahead and develop an API for GNU tar only, would I be able to just modify the existing modules, or do I have to reinvent the wheel and more or less rewrite the entire project? I would really just like to be able to add some data structures and remove global variables.

I appreciate your help.

Charlie Sale

Charlie Sale

Phone: 317-775-2763

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Charlie,

On Monday, September 25, 2017 5:09:12 PM CEST Charlie Sale wrote:
> As for building the library, I would compile the tar source against a possible
> paxutils library and gnulib (if it has a shared library). I would also have to
> install some of the tar headers.
>
> Please let me know what you think.

I don't claim it could not work as you draw it.  But the GNU tar binary IMO
should *use* the library which would be provided by GNU tar/GNU paxutils.

IOW, please build the binary against the new library (whereever it will live)
and not the other way around (library against tar's sources).

Pavel