Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar

[Vladimir Dozen]

ehlo.

 > so I want to make sure it's well-tested

   BTW, how do you perform testing of the library/tar?

   This kind of code should (shall) contain almost
   100% automated test coverage, in my opinion. It's due to
   it's complexity and extremely wide usage.

 >> - I would prefer it if compression was done by opening a pipe to
 >> gzip/bzip2 instead of using libz/libbz2.

 > Not really simpler for the library, and definitely not simpler
 > for clients of the library.

   Yeah. Spawning a process from inside the library is a bad idea, IMO.

   The right way to avoid code duplication between gzip and libarchive
   is to use common libgzip. The same applies to bzip and compress.

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