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

[Andreas Jung]

--On Montag, 22. September 2003 21:34 Uhr -0700 Jamie Heilman 
<jamie at audible.transient.net> wrote:

> Terry Hancock wrote:
>> So I'd be really unhappy if the code was actually modified to
>> accomodate tar programs with path limits.
>
> You think you would be huh?  The irony is the code that keeps
> triggering the problem is practically all in TextIndex which now has
> multiple replacements that are billed as being better than the
> original.  So not only would it be a relatively straight-forward
> change, it might get done eventually due to deprecation anyway
> (although afaik there are no plans to deprecate the old TextIndex
> support).
>

There is no reason to deprecate TextIndex as long as it is used
(e.g. in the CMF as default textindex!). Fixing the tools is the solution
and not building a workaround by removing code.

-aj