Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Zipper state

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi
> > I have found Zipper's state to be quite Abysmal. I checked the tar and
> > zip handling for now.
> >
> > Zip handling mostly works if the standard unzip is used. NetBSD uses an
> > unzip which does not support -qq. Minor problem.
> > Date parsing did not work. I fixed it on my  box. But I fear that this
> > has impacts on other computers? The parse strings were wrong.
> I had the same problems, but fixed them away with patches in the OpenBSD source 
> tree.
I applied some of them already.
> > Tar handling
> > GNU-tar : mostly worked, but date parsing was bad
> same here for me.
Should be fixed.

> > bsd-tar: On NetBSD no archive could be opened, crashes exceptions. I
> > fixed it. BSD tar has two date formats if the year is current or not.
> > Also, there is a trailing line at the end.
> Same here for me on OpenBSD. I did not found a good way to parse the dates for 
> the
> BSD tar. Maybe we should just not support it? On OpenBSD, I patched Zipper to 
> default
> to use the GNU tar. (which is installed anyways, due to the gnustep-make 
> package requires
> gnu tar)
I prefer BSD tar. I fixed it for netbsd. I wonder if it works on OpenBSD 
and other platforms now?
> I'll check in the next couple of days in OpenBSD and openSUSE, I'll 
> also test with some other archivers. Sebastian
I haven't yet reviewed / touched those. Tarballs and Zips is what I have 
around here.

I'm migrating from Renaissance to Gorm, which I prefer. Perhaps I can 
also attempt a Mac port.

Riccardo