Bringing Otakar back in on the discussion.
Duncan Coutts
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 23:15 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi
-- line 133 replaced with these two system calls
system $ unwords ["tar -C", tmpDir, "-cf", tarBallFilePath, nameVersion pkg_descr] system $ unwords ["gzip -9", tarBallFilePath]
So the version of tar there is too old to understand the -z flag?
What was the original line here? And why are tar and gzip being used, when a much more "windows" thing to do would be to create a .zip file - although I guess thats not what people want.
We'd still need a .zip file reader.
I would suggest we ship zlib.dll on windows, and not use external tar or gzip programs, but then of course we run into the problem that there's nowhere to put the .dll that will work (unless someone can figure out how to use isolated .dlls and manifests and all that).
So perhaps including a recent tar prog (that understands -z) would be the way forward. We'd need this for cabal-install in future, it's not just sdist.
Do you mean just include it for windows? Including tar with cabal seems a bit over the top... Is there a pure Haskell tar or gzip or zip? We could just not compress things, I guess, if it's pretty common to have this older version of tar. peace, isaac