Re: [Duplicity-talk] On replacing tar, why not dar ?

[Scott Hannahs]

librsync has packages on all platforms which makes duplicity cross platform 
already.  I looked at libdar and it is not the package of libdar that is the 
difficulty but the whole tree of dependencies that need to be built as well.

As the maintainer of the fink package for duplicity under OS X, building the 
package with a libdar dependency is not impossible but will take some work.  It 
is certainly not a show stopper but this cross platform dependency is not 
automatic!

As far as I can tell, there is only a source download for Mac OS X, which is 
what fink uses.

I am not arguing agains dar.  It looks interesting and does solve a lot of 
issues with an already supported package.  But cross platform is not the 
driving difference.

-Scott


> On Sep 9, 2015, at 11:31, Zach Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> libdar has binary packages provided for Windows and Mac OS and it says
> it has been tested on several other systems as well. I don't know what
> platform dependencies duplicity has at the moment, but if duplicity
> eventually becomes a wrapper around libdar then it seems reasonable
> that it could become cross-platform.
> 
> Zach
> 
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 8:49 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> just a sidenote. someone mentioned that using libdar would make duplicity 
>> more cross-platform. my experience is that each platform dependent library 
>> makes it more difficult to maintain/distribute a software for different 
>> platforms.
>>