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

[Zach Adams]

I guess I should have clarified by saying more cross-platform, or more
easily maintained cross-platform, which apparently may not be the
case. Either way, I agree it really isn't the most important
difference.

Zach

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Scott Hannahs <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>>>
>
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