Re: [Bug-tar] Software Proposal

[Pavel Raiskup]

Hi Charlie,

On Monday, September 25, 2017 10:25:20 PM CEST Charlie Sale wrote:
> Does this mean that an API should not be developed for GNU tar, but
> instead for GNU paxutils?

I don't think that the library location matters too much.  I just think
that the library shouldn't be just "separate product", but also the
low-level cornerstone for /bin/tar.  And paxutils git more or less served
this purpose.

> If this is the case, should I be talking to paxutils instead?

That's the same upstream (Sergey and Paul here on the bug-tar list).

> 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.

Dunno, that's implementation detail the patch author should look at;  as
the patch author is going to defend the patch.

Pavel