Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Adding "-/" to Sun tar was denied by me for good reasons: it breaks
> > compatibility.
> >
> Fine. This is basically that you refused to implement the equivalent of
> a TCR.
Wrong: I take comptibility seriously and this is why I reject attempts to
introduce imcompatibility.
Adding "-/" to Sun tar _did_ introduce incompatibility, this is why it has been
rejected.
Implementing _features_ is a completely different playground.....
Implementing a feature for "-/" that does not mean:
-/ don't strip leading '/'s from file names
Is introducing imcompatiblity.
So my advise for Sun tar: implement the feature but use a differenr option
name that does not introduce incompatibility.
J?rg
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