Testing pax on platforms was Re: Using pax instead of cpio in dist.sh

--On Sunday, March 28, 2004 10:23 AM -0800 Ben Reser <ben@reser.org> wrote:

> I just haven't gotten around to producing tarballs this way to post to
> have people test them for problems. If someone else doesn't get around
> to it, I'll do this tomorrow. Once we've done that and caught most of
> the major platforms I'll be happy to see that r9079 gets merged. Here's
> my list of platforms I want to see tested:
>
> Linux
> (Free|Open)BSD
> OS X
> Solaris
> HP/UX
> AIX
> Windows (WinZip - though I believe it still won't work, it'd be nice to
> know)

Agreed. If someone posts a link to such a tarball created with pax, I can
catch everything but HP/UX, AIX, and Win32.

As we've discussed before, Win32 shouldn't be using tarballs in the first
place. I'll be shooting to take a first pass at redoing dist.sh this week
or next. -- justin

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