Tar in win32libs

[Ralf Habacker]

Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> On 14.04.07 17:18:01, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>   
>> Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
>>     
>>> On 14.04.07 15:51:40, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> KDevelop4 needs tar or some other zipping tool for its application
>>>> templates, so it would be cool if tar could be added to win32libs. I
>>>> tried to use the one from gnuwin32 but that bails out with
>>>>
>>>> "Could not fork": Function not implemented
>>>>
>>>> I'm using tar -czf basically.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Just talked to Christian on ICQ, we agreed that its possible to use
>>> www.info-zip.org under windows. And he'll add that to win32libs sooner
>>> or later.
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>  From the site:
>>   Info-ZIP's purpose is to provide free, portable, high-quality versions 
>> of the *Zip* <http://www.info-zip.org/Zip.html> and *UnZip* 
>> <http://www.info-zip.org/UnZip.html> compressor-archiver utilities
>>
>> Does that mean that kdevelop will have zip support in the future ?
>>     
>
> Uhm, kdelibs has KZip which can at least uncompress a .zip. For our
> application templates (which are installed as compressed archives,
> either using tar.gz or .zip) we create the archive during build and then
> unpack it during project creation (depending on the archives filename
> use KTar or KZip). The creation of the archives during build-time is the
> reason that zip is needed on windows (as gnuwin32 tar is somehow
> broken).
>
>   
gnuwin32 Zip was added to the installer see category "tools".

Ralf