[asdf-install-devel] Dealing with tar on Windows.

[Andy Cristina]

My knowledge of win32 tar implementations is a bit out of date, but
when I last worked on getting asdf-install to work on windows, bsd tar
for win32 was the most well supported one.  The various gnu tar ports
all had bugs, such as an inability to use paths with spaces in the
name (even escaping the spaces with a '\' didn't seem to work).

Would it be worth looking into removing the gnu tar/gzip dependancy
altogether in favor of a lisp solution, ala Edi Weitz' lispworks
startup thing?  Or is this too big a change for too little gain?

On Nov 12, 2007 12:40 PM, Dan Muller <pikdj2002 at sneakemail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for feedback!
>
> On 11/12/2007, Gary King wrote:
>
> >One question I have is whether cygwin is required for these patches
> >to work (I'm guessing that this is the only way currently to get tar
> >support so that the answer is no)?
>
> With this set of changes, Cygwin is not required.  Instead of assuming
> that Cygwin is installed in a particular place, ASDF-INSTALL will now
> work if there's a tar executable somewhere in the path that can handle
> native paths -- or whatever it is that NAMESTRING returns in the running
> Lisp implementation -- and the --force-local option. I assume that the
> --force-local option is specific to Gnu tar.
>
> Of course, the most obvious way to get a Gnu tar on Windows is still to
> install Cygwin. I don't know if there are other ports around these days.
>
> >A darcs patch is the preferred method but diffs are OK too.
>
> Good, I'll try to set aside time to put together a recursive diff soon,
> perhaps this evening. I picked up the latest tarball from Cliki before I
> started this work yesterday, hopefully that's an adequate basis for the
> diffs.
>
> I should probably offer updates to the docs, too, but I won't delay for
> that right now.
>
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