April 26, 2000
9:34 p.m.
Greg Ward writes:
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
Sounds like extraneous cruft to me. -Fred -- Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake at acm.org> Corporation for National Research Initiatives