[Python-Dev] Re: Problem with 2.3b2 tarfile?

[François Pinard]

[Barry Warsaw]

> (unless someone else is motivated to generate Solaris-friendly tarballs).

Thinking loud.  I remember that GNU `tar' already has a few ugly hacks to
inter-operate despite serious glitches (or blunt bugs) in Sun and Solaris
`tar's.  Moreover, the last maintainer of `tar' was very fond of Solaris.

P.S. - I often objected that there are so many `Solarisms' in GNU.  I was
somewhat pitiful for users of old hardware, from deceased companies.  Before
Linux existed, such users clearly did not have the monetary means to do
better.  But Sun?  They, rather than us, should support their users... :-)

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard