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To everyone suggesting people send patches in to the original repos instead of using this, or anything like it: Have you ever tried hunting down the canonical
by masukomi 11y ago
To everyone suggesting people send patches in to the original repos instead of using this, or anything like it:
Have you ever tried hunting down the canonical source repo for any of those ancient commands? It's nigh-impossible for many (most?). Seriously, give it a try for one of the small ones that haven't been touched in a few years.
- joshstrange 11y agoIf if you do good luck getting your patch merged, wait a year for the next release, and then sit back and wait a few years (if ever) for the versions to trickle into real distributions Just look at the timeline of the last 4 releases of Tar: Tar 1.28 - 27 Jul 2014 Tar 1.27.1 - 17 Nov 2013 Tar 1.27 - 20 Oct 2013 Tar 1.26 - 12 Mar 2011