Re: dpkg minw32

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Luke,

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

>                        i looked up "dpkg win32" on google and found a
> failed project.  so, i tried cross-compiling dpkg myself.  i found
> that it, too, wasn't going to work, and the reason was that yes,
> again: fork and popen are used, to communicate with tar, bzip2, gzip
> and so on.
> 
> this is in direct contrast to dpkg of some years ago, where it used to
> be (statically?) compiled with libtar, libz and libbz2.

Check again?  dpkg 1.1.4 from 1996 (oldest version I have handy) uses
the ‘tar’ binary to build and extract packages.  And modern dpkg has
./configure --with/--without-zlib and similar options to decide
whether to use compression libaries or external compression programs.