Date sent: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:29:25 -0400 From: Joey Hess <[email protected]> To: Franck Joncourt <[email protected]>, [email protected] Copies to: Jenda Krynicky <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Bug#515331: [libconfigini-hash-perl] compression program used
> Franck Joncourt wrote: > > [...] > > >> In order to help the maintainer, would it be possible to know what > > >> compression program do you use? > > > > > > Hmmm... I'm using some tar and gzip that I downloaded God knows from > > > where sometime about ten years ago. Under MS Windows. For both > > > Config::IniHash and Mail::Sender. > > > > > > tar --help reports "This is GNU tar, the tape archiving program." and > > > no version number, gzip -h reports "gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)". (Gosh > > > that's old) > > > > Maybe tar --version could give you more information. > > No need, all I care about is the gzip version. > > I'm impressed that you still have that old thing, thanks! Presumably, > then, this bug can be fixed by us digging up the source to that old > version of gzip and including it into zgz as an alternative compressor. > > > > Is there a version of those two for Windows that would be proved to > > > work well with your system? I don't mind installing new versions of > > > the two executables, but I'd rather install some that will work > > > instead of wasting time on something that doesn't help. > > > > Joey, which one would you recommend? > > I don't want to dictate what tools people use to make .tar.gz files. > pristine-tar should ideally handle anything that's thrown at it. > > > Otherwise, perhaps getting the latest releases could be enough :) > > Any version of gzip less than 10 years old would probably create an gzip > archive pristine-tar can handle, yes. :-) I attach a tar.gz of Config::IniHash created with gzip 1.3.12 downloaded a few minutes ago from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gzip.htm Let me know if it works please. Jenda P.S.: If I go to gnu.org and follow the links to gzip I end up at http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gzip/ and it seems the version 1.2.4 from 1993 is still there. So quite possibly I'm not the only user of Windows that has such an old gzip. ===== [email protected] === http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz ===== When it comes to wine, women and song, wizards are allowed to get drunk and croon as much as they like. -- Terry Pratchett in Sourcery
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