[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #566: Support compressed (tar.gz) testsuite data

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#566: Support compressed (tar.gz) testsuite data
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  Reporter:  knarf        |       Owner:                     
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  review             
  Priority:  minor        |   Milestone:  ET_2011_11         
 Component:  Cactus       |     Version:  development version
Resolution:               |    Keywords:                     
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Comment (by knarf):

 The 'why' should go - that is a left-over.

 It is true that this would make 'svn diff' on testsuite data kind of
 useless. However, I would personally be willing to trade this.

 Concerning Mime: It's nice for something like email, which was designed to
 contain only text. Using mime, you can send also binary blobs, but I
 wouldn't count the resulting text as readable.

 'tar' alone might be a problem, right. We have the same issue with the
 build-scripts for libraries. I propose to change the patch to use
 something similar there, as in:

   TAR=$(gtar --help > /dev/null 2> /dev/null && echo gtar || echo tar)

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/566#comment:5>
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