On 22/05/07, John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Joerg Schilling wrote: > There is no bashing, GNU tar is non-portablePleeeze - GNU Tar is portable to everywhere that has GNU tar. For the purposes of this discussion, this includes ALL of the OS's we are talking about: Solaris, OpenSolaris, the OpenSolaris Distros, RHEL, Fedora and all the other Linux derivatives. Leaving aside for the moment its bugs and the mental state of the users who have - for better or for worse - decided to use it, the fact remains that the transition between a Linux environment and a Solaris environment is more difficult than it needs to be. We need to address that disconnect. There seems to be two migration paths that are possible: Have developers migrate from Linux to Solaris, or Have developers migrate from Solaris to Linux. Which do you see happening - both short and long term? If what is happening differs from what you would prefer, what needs to be done to bring the two into alignment?
Speaks in a small voice: *but all versions of GNU tar are not compatible with each other, some versions have different command-line options meaning it isn't truly portable...* -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
