Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > If we aggree that you provide documentation and that none of the sun tar
> > enhancement that has been introduced after June 16th 2004 (using deprecated
> > methods) needs to be supported but only the functionality needs to be
> > present,
> > this wouls be easy to achieve.
>
> That will not be agreed to - any replacement of tar must support all
> enhancements that were made to Solaris tar up until the time of replacement.
> We can't tell users to throw away all the tar files they have from the last
> 3 years.
This is why it is a bad idea to introduce incompatible options.
J?rg
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