From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-07-12T01:32:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rant 0.4.0

On 7/10/05, Stefan Lang <langstefan@gmx.at> wrote:
> Rant comes with parts of Mauricio Fernandez and Austin Ziegler's
> archive-tar-minitar to create (gzipped) tar archives on platforms
> where no tar command is available.

I'm curious as to why you chose to import parts of the code rather
than making it a dependency?

FWIW, I never use tar anymore in generating my distributions, as the
only major features that ardchive-tar-minitar is missing is symlink
support (it's missing more than that, but the symlink support is the
only one that's really important for a distribution purpose).

-austin
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