Re: Default tar for 1.3 and later

[Raphael Marmier <raphael@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:13:06AM +0200, Hummel Tom wrote:
>
> > Hi Joerg,
> >
> > > is there any objection to switch the default tar to BSD tar?
> > > GNU tar will be kept, since some features for tape handling
> > > and updating are missing in BSD tar, but the latter does a
> > > better job for the normal use cases.
> >
> > which were the reasons for GNU in the first place?
>
>
> GNU tar is the de-facto standard, sadly as it is.
>
> Joerg
no more path length limitation in bsd tar?

Raphael