#566: Support compressed (tar.gz) testsuite data --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: knarf | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: ET_2011_11 Component: Cactus | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: --------------------------+-------------------------------------------------
Comment (by eschnett):
Reducing the number of files is probably a good idea. Ideally, one could use HDF5 to combine various output files into one; lacking support for this, tar.gz seems like an easy solution.
One cannot use "tar" in a script, since "tar" may not be a good tar implementation. One should use gnutar or gtar if they are available, and one some platforms one explicitly has to look for a good tar.
Why is there a "why?" comment in the patch? The need for this line seems obvious.