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Re: [Chicken-users] gunzip dependency
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-users] gunzip dependency |
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Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:10:25 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
Brandon J. Van Every scripsit:
> What would it take to eliminate chicken-setup's reliance on gunzip on
> Windows?
The issue is really twofold:
1) chicken-setup depends on tar to take apart eggs;
2) Chicken does not know if the local tar understands the z option or
not, so it uses gzip foo.egg | tar xfv - to unpack it. If the z option
always worked, then tar xfvz foo.egg would suffice; but SlowLaris tar
(and I believe also HockeyPux tar) do not understand this option.
A suitable tar for pure Windows that does understand the z option is
GNUWin32 bsdtar at http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/bsdtar.htm .
This version has integrated the zlib library for decompression.
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