On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:10:05PM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > Barry> I've updated the bugs page to remove the kaput bugs and add a > Barry> note about extraction problems on Solaris 8. > > Thanks. I found this item on the Haskell website: > > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/hugs-bugs/2002-November/001045.html > > Looks like Solaris (<= 8) tar has a pathname limit of 80 characters. Should > we try and squeeze the Python directory tree into that limit or simply tell > people to use GNU tar if their tar barfs? > > Skip ... provide a "macless" tarball for problem systems, and enforce an 80 char limit on it? is this a traditional tar or Solaris tar limitation? It's not clear, having RTFA'd. It sounds like the 80-char limit is Solaris, and the 100-char limit is traditional? Jeff
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