setup: built-in tar

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Mon May 22 21:11:00 GMT 2000


Are you planning on building ctar into setup.c eventually or are you
going to keep it as a separate program?

I'm glad to see the zlib stuff being used rather than having a separate
gzip.  That always bothered me.

cgf

On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:53:56PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>Here's a preview of something I've been toying with.  My goal is to
>get rid of all the .exe's setup carries around; they take up space,
>slow down the install, and are cumbersome to work with.  We'd also
>need hooks into these processes if/when we add a GUI.


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