Re: hdup 2.0.1 argggg

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 14:48, Boris Goldowsky wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:11 +0100, Miek Gieben wrote:
> > I'm seriously looking into replacing gnu tar all together. This would
> > either mean using star, implementing a tar algo myself or using some
> > other tar implementation out there...
> 
> I wish I had anything helpful to offer here, but I haven't come up with
> anything.  Tar's --listed-incremental does seem to have some important
> advantages over just checking modification times, and star seems to be
> working on support for incrementals but it isn't there yet.  Doing it
> all yourself is a big job.

Miek, as a grateful user of hdup I'm not about to impugn your ability to
write good code, but sticking with a widely-used external implementation
of tar (GNU, star, pax, whatever...) means that a large chunk of the
code used by hdup benefits from a lot of independent testing and
maintenance.

As Boris suggested, if the functionality is not there already, would the
maintainers accept a patch?  (Easy for me to say, as a
non-programmer...)

-- Graham