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If you want a universal format, you have a compressed source tar-ball. Anything else will run into the whims (and on the ground circumstances) of maintainers an
by digi_owl 8y ago
If you want a universal format, you have a compressed source tar-ball. Anything else will run into the whims (and on the ground circumstances) of maintainers and admins.
- bboozzoo 8y agoOr cpio. IIRC tar had its own set of issues once you consider old Linux distros or non-Linux systems in general.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoFun story: I once had to exchange data with a Solaris box, and discovered that its tar had no "z" flag. Ended up just exchanging uncompressed tar files because I didn't want to figure out .tar.Z files.
- digi_owl 8y ago.Z is compress/uncompress, no?
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y agoThink so. And it was probably doable, but I realized that my network connection was fast enough that the transfer would be done before I could check.