#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 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)