From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 25458@debbugs.gnu.org, pot@gnu.org
Subject: bug#25458: 25.1; tar mode does not handle compressed archives without specific extensions
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 19:02:12 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838rr5mnej.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qwx2zv8.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 13 May 2022 17:53:15 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: pot@gnu.org, 25458@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 17:53:15 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > But decompressing means, for most compression types, running an
> > external program on the file. Or does OP suggest that we link Emacs
> > against libbz2, liblz4, liblzma, etc. to have these decompression
> > methods available in core?
>
> No, it would work just like when you read a tar.gz file -- we use
> external decompressors for that, too, even if we then parse the
> resulting tar file ourselves.
Then I guess I don't understand what is the problem we are asked to
fix here. Francesco, can you explain?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-13 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-16 15:20 bug#25458: 25.1; tar mode does not handle compressed archives without specific extensions Francesco Potortì
2022-05-13 14:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-13 14:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-13 14:45 ` Francesco Potortì
2022-05-13 15:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-13 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-13 22:25 ` Francesco Potortì
2022-05-14 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-13 14:36 ` Francesco Potortì
2022-05-13 15:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-13 22:18 ` Francesco Potortì
2022-05-14 1:13 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-16 14:24 ` Francesco Potortì
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