Re: Archive_Tar class anyone?
| From: | Tomas V.V.Cox | Date: | Thu, 02 Aug 2001 12:16:33 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Archive_Tar class anyone? | ||
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"Stig S. Bakken" wrote:
>
> To make the PEAR installer work on Windows, we need to get rid of the
> "tar" external command dependency in PEAR_Installer. This means we need
> a tar implementation written in PHP. Perl has one (Archive::Tar), so
> there's a nice reference source. :-) Anyone up for this one?
>
PHP gzip works on Windows? If so, we can do a simple "ar" port instead
of a hole "tar" and gzip it later (AFAIK Debian packages are .ar's).
This would be a great contribution to the System Class.
Tomas V.V.Cox