tar-package was: Re: modules of cabal-install

Antoine Latter wrote:

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Christian Maeder wrote:

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Hi,

I would like to reuse the module Distribution.Client.Tar from the cabal-install package. [...]

There's a 'tar' package on Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/tar

Thanks, for pointing this out. This package depends (in contrast to cabal-install) on additional packages binary and unix-compat, which isn't a real problem, but only seems unnecessary. The tar package does also not support compression (via zlib), but maybe this could/should be a separate package. (There's also an older package "htar" with "compression".) The sources in cabal-install seem most up-to-date (because of cabal-install-0.6.2) and it would make sense to take this sources and replace those in the tar-package. Does the tar-package have any advantage (i.e. speed or portability) over Distribution.Client.Tar? The module structure Codec.Archive.Tar looks a bit nicer, but re-exporting the internal data structures seems unnecessary to me. Where are the actual repositories with the most recent sources? Cheers Christian