r22869 - gnucash/trunk/packaging/win32 - Win32 build: Can we get along without libgsf-gnome?

[John Ralls]

On Apr 4, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>> Probably not. You can get a win32 binary at
>> http://tukaani.org/xz/xz-5.0.4-windows.zip
> 
> Even better, the 'tar' we have on the builder doesn't support -J either.
> How frustrating!  Why did gnome do this?  Or do they just not care about
> Windows anymore?  Yet another reason to punt Gnome/Gtk.  Blah!

They did it because xz makes smaller archives than bz2, and they store a *lot* of archives.

As for tar support, why does that matter? `foocat file.tar.fooz | tar xf -` works for all.

Regards,
John Ralls