pkgutils: Finalizing the libarchive move
Hi, I'd like to finalize the move of pkgutils to libarchive, and make another pkgutils release soonish. * libarchive's 2.0 branch has been stable since ~February * it works well for me * libarchive is very well maintained: bugs/patches get fixed/included immediately (I found one minor bug in libarchive last week). * there's no notable difference in size of pkgadd or in terms of speed of pkgadd * adding support for bzip2'ed packages is trivial and just requires a one line diff in pkgmk (just in case we want to offer that feature) The main reason I send this mail is to ask for any last minute objections to this. I remember Simone had some doubts about the performance, but I don't see any problems wrt to that. Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:40:06PM +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
Hi, I'd like to finalize the move of pkgutils to libarchive, and make another pkgutils release soonish.
Great, thank you very much for your work so far. Apologizes for not having tested the libarchive branch as promised. []
The main reason I send this mail is to ask for any last minute objections to this. I remember Simone had some doubts about the performance, but I don't see any problems wrt to that.
Sounds ok to me, my initial concerns were about a simple comparison of GNU tar with bsdtar, but I see nice news on the libarchive page, and a quick test supports that. Regards, Simone -- Simone Rota Bergamo, Italy - http://www.varlock.com
Simone Rota [2007-04-18 03:23]:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:40:06PM +0200, Tilman Sauerbeck wrote:
I'd like to finalize the move of pkgutils to libarchive, and make another pkgutils release soonish.
Great, thank you very much for your work so far. Apologizes for not having tested the libarchive branch as promised.
Not a problem. I'm quite sure that it's working nicely :)
The main reason I send this mail is to ask for any last minute objections to this. I remember Simone had some doubts about the performance, but I don't see any problems wrt to that.
Sounds ok to me, my initial concerns were about a simple comparison of GNU tar with bsdtar, but I see nice news on the libarchive page, and a quick test supports that.
Great :) Regards, Tilman -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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