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> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:17:39 -0500
> From: Rugxulo <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com>
> 
> >> If we are looking at enhancing our Tar support beyond djtar, I'd
> >> suggest to look at libarchive and the bsdtar and bsdcpio programs in
> >> there.  Unlike the current GNU Tar maintainers, who are quite
> >> unfriendly to non-Posix platforms,
> 
> In fairness, most big projects seem to prefer POSIX (Mac, Linux) and
> Windows only these days.

GNU Tar maintainers prefer only Posix.  That's the difference.

> Half the stuff I try building with DJGPP never works.

If no one submitted DJGPP patches upstream, we shouldn't be surprised
things don't work out of the box.  The problem I alluded to was the
willingness (or, rather, lack thereof) to accept and incorporate
patches coming from non-Posix platforms, even when they are submitted.