On Dec 12, 2015, at 10:45 AM, Andy Bradford <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thus said Warren Young on Fri, 11 Dec 2015 12:57:45 -0700: > >> gzip-aware tar isn't POSIX, either, > > One doesn't need gzip-aware tar to handle this situation: > > gzip -dc fossil-version.tar.gz | (cd location && tar xvf - )
I was using Unix years before gzip was created. Yeah, that’s right, kids, I remember compress(1) and tar(1) before -z. :) For that matter, I remember sharchives and uuenode. Eeek! My real point is that the Linux binaries should be tarballs, too. An old Debian 4 minimal-install test VM I have here lacks unzip. I don’t want to do a survey of Linux distros right now, but I’ll bet I can find multiple up-to-date desktop and server Linuxes where the minimal install doesn’t include unzip. It’s less of an issue with OS X, since zip functionality is built into Finder, and the OS always includes the InfoZip tools. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
