On 4/4/06, Jim Weirich <jim / weirichhouse.org> wrote:> (2) I'm considering adding support for the pure-ruby tar library to> build the tarfile.  This would allow the package to be built on windows> machines that don't a tar program.  But I'm not sure if the pure ruby> tar library supports a -h option.  That would have to be verfified.
I have been given a patch for minitar that is supposed to supportsymlinks. I have not had time to review or apply it yet.
Additionally, a significant upgrade to minitar may be in the works ifsomething else I'm working on pans out.
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