From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-07-03T09:55:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Minitar#tar? and inclusion in Ruby?

On 7/2/06, transfire@gmail.com <transfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using Archive::Tar:Minitar, is there any way to quickly check if a file
> is a tar file or not?
>
> Also I would like to recommend Austin's lib for inclusion in Ruby.  We
> already have Zlib so it makes sense to provide for tar.gz files.
> Although I think maybe simplify the naming to just Archive::Tar --no
> Minitar. Hopefully it will get some additonal features eventually and
> not be so "mini" ;-) In so doing, perhaps Zlib belongs in Archive
> namespace too?

Actually, Archive::Tar::Minitar will be deprecated hopefully by the
end of the year. Members of TRUG started on a project (RAT) to replace
it with a port of libarchive at a hackathon earlier this year. This
didn't produce something usable, but work will continue in other
hackathons later this year and something should be usable (hopefully)
by RubyConf.

There's a lot that Minitar can't do -- and little value in adding it
considering the options that libarchive give us.

-austin
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