Re: [Gnu-arch-users] planning 2.0?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Peter Conrad <address@hidden> writes:

> any software should be targeting its users' needs, not the political
> goals of the supporting organization.

Well, whether you like it or not, the GNU project _is_ political.

> Hard links are an optimization. tla works (or could work) fine 
> without them.

Right, but this optimization has a significant impact on performance.

> Long paths aren't neccessary for a good archive format, so I wouldn't
> call the path length an "unacceptable design constraint".

Right, the archive format could probably be modified to be less
demanding on path length.

That said, this really is a limitation, I'd even say a flaw, of the
underlying OS.  You wouldn't want to worry about 8.3 file names for
instance, would you?

Thanks,
Ludovic.