in reply to Lightweight, Platform-Independant Tar (Part 2)

Once upon a time, I played around with using jar files as a platform agnostic solution since tar(1) understands jar files...that was, admittedly in an environment whereby java was installed on every machine to which deliveries had to be made.

IIRC, I even prototyped an ABI package lookalike solution using that as a basis.

A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))
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Re^2: Lightweight, Platform-Independant Tar (Part 2)
by bart (Canon) on Nov 07, 2008 at 08:12 UTC
    A .jar file is actually a .zip file plus some extras in its content (I think a MANIFEST file, but I'm not sure that's all...?). And .zip and .gz are related, they're both handled by zlib (and thus, by Compress::Zlib too — usually through Archive::Zip). Plenty of tar binaries can directly handle .tar.gz, compressed .tar files. So maybe there is your link.
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