GNU tar damage for the 5000th time, was Re: [Zope] z2 startup exception

[Andreas Jung]

What about using a TAR that works for your platform?
Stinking or buggy software is not an argument for restructuring
the Zope source tree.

-aj

--On Montag, 22. September 2003 13:31 Uhr -0700 Jamie Heilman 
<jamie at audible.transient.net> wrote:

> Arenz, Ralph wrote:
>> ImportError: No module named Splitter
>
> This is usually indicitive of Zope being unpacked with something other
> than GNU tar.
>
> You know, for the frequency this problem occurs you'd think something
> could actually be done about it that would solve it forever.  Waiting
> for all the versions of tar in the world to suddenly agree on how to
> handle path names containing over 100 characters isn't a terribly
> effective approach.  What would be really swift, is if Zope Corp just
> restructured their code so there were no longer any paths that
> exceeded said limit.
>
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