Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: baz format archives in tla

[Andy Tai]

On 4/7/06, James Blackwell <address@hidden> wrote:

> Bazaar-1.x (only developed for about 6 months) dealt with this by removing
> the redundant path elements in a way that allowed room for stripping out
> categories, versions or branches (that's why this--that--xx/ instead of
> this/that/xx/)
>
> I suggest that Gnu Arch either take this fix or implement something
I assume you refer to the baz format, which support was merged in to tla by Tom.

> different different with similiar results. Most large projects are
> concerned about portability as their developers live on heterogenous
> platforms. Arguing "I can browse my archive in emacs" doesn't sell well
> when considered within the context of perl & python w/ or w/o modules,
> apache, php, SDL games, or much of anything available via cygwin or mingw.

The latest tla also incorporated Lode Leroy's path compression patch. 
That makes tla usable on top of cygwin.