Re: [Bug-tar] Software Proposal

[Charlie Sale]

Hello again everybody.

I thought I would give you a little heads up on my API idea.

So my approach was taking all of the global variables and sticking them inside of a struct and then adding parameters to all of the functions so that they used the parameters instead of the global variables. After doing this for a little while, I concluded that what I was doing was very inefficient and the true solution was to rewrite the project, something that I simply will not do, because I risk breaking the project, which is something that I do not want to do. So, I am halting my work on a tar-specific API.

However, I am interested in working on the pax project. I think that a tar-specific API is not really useful if it is being merged into a larger project. A pax api would be useful I think.

Short sidebar: is address@hidden always really backed up? I sent in my form at least 3 weeks ago and I have gotten no reply.

Do you agree with my thoughts? Do you want my help?

Thanks,

Charlie

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Charlie Sale <address@hidden> wrote:

Ok. Thanks for your help. I think I have enough information to get started. I will probably work on tar only for now.

Thanks
Charlie

On Tue, Sep 26, 2017, 12:31 AM Pavel Raiskup <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Charlie,

On Monday, September 25, 2017 10:25:20 PM CEST Charlie Sale wrote:
> Does this mean that an API should not be developed for GNU tar, but
> instead for GNU paxutils?

I don't think that the library location matters too much.  I just think
that the library shouldn't be just "separate product", but also the
low-level cornerstone for /bin/tar.  And paxutils git more or less served
this purpose.

> If this is the case, should I be talking to paxutils instead?

That's the same upstream (Sergey and Paul here on the bug-tar list).

> Also, if I did go ahead and develop an API for GNU tar only, would I be
> able to just modify the existing modules, or do I have to reinvent the
> wheel and more or less rewrite the entire project? I would really just
> like to be able to add some data structures and remove global variables.

Dunno, that's implementation detail the patch author should look at;  as
the patch author is going to defend the patch.

Pavel

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~Charlie Sale