April 26, 2000
2:51 a.m.
On 24 April 2000, Harry Henry Gebel said:
The patch was a washout, it didn't save any time and made the code harder to understand. I liked it at two in the morning, but after looking at it when I was wide awake I think the current way is better.
Okee-dokey. If anyone's interested, it would still be mildly interesting and useful to detect GNU tar and use the -z option, and to detect GNU tar >= 1.13 and use the "base directory" option. Not essential, but it's one of those things that makes the Distutils look smarter, so I like it. ;-) Greg -- Greg Ward - Unix geek gward@python.net http://starship.python.net/~gward/ Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.