[p4] p4tar/p4untar

[Robert Cowham]

A python version of the tools could use the built in zip library. In
addition, py2exe could be used to provide a straight forward Windows
precompiled version with no extra dependencies on python etc.

I just happen to know about these things in Python, but no doubt something
similar could be done with Perl.

Robert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Grills
> Sent: 25 April 2007 16:40
> To: 'Nikhil Singhal'
> Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] p4tar/p4untar
> 
> Oh, I didn't take your post as a gripe at all.  I'm glad that 
> you, and many others it seems, have benefited from these 
> utilities.  I believe software should be obvious, easy to 
> use, and (when possible) hard to misuse.  The dependencies 
> that p4tar/p4untar have on external utilities that aren't 
> commonly installed on Windows platforms make those tools much 
> harder to use on Windows than I'd like, and I fully 
> understand that Windows is a very popular development and 
> deployment platform.  I've developed on and shipped several 
> commercial products for Windows over the past 12 years.  
> 
> My solicitation for replacement ideas was motivated only by a 
> desire to improve these utilities for everyone, myself 
> included.  And my request still stands - if anyone has ideas, 
> I'd really like to hear them.
> 
> And if support is listening (and of course they are), I 
> wouldn't mind at all if this functionality made its way into 
> p4/p4win/p4v as a native perforce capability and these 
> utilities became obsolete.  I'd love to be able to 
> right-click a changelist in one of the GUI clients and select 
> a menu entry for "Archive changelist to file."  Wouldn't that 
> be useful?
> 
> j