[PROJ] PROJ 9.4.0RC1 & PROJ-data 1.17RC1

[Javier Jimenez Shaw]

So don't worry Kristian, it is not you, it is Mac ;)

For the next time we should use a different prefix, now that we know that
Mac is doing something special.

On Wed, 28 Feb 2024 at 19:04, Sebastiaan Couwenberg via PROJ <
proj at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> On 2/28/24 6:28 PM, Kristian Evers via PROJ wrote:
> > I’m on a Mac and they don’t always behave as you would expect coming
> from a Linux system. For instance, Bas’ tar command doesn’t fly with my
> particular brand of tar:
> >
> > $ tar tavf proj-data-1.17RC2.tar.gz | grep '\._'
> > tar: Option -a is not permitted in mode -t
>
> -a is likely a GNU tar specific option. I'm remember cursing grep on
> Solaris not supporting -A/-B/-C back in the day.
>
> `tar tzvf proj-data-1.17RC2.tar.gz` does work on Mac, but it ignores the
> ._ files, they are also not present after unpacking the archive.
>
> > Unpacking the file surprisingly doesn’t reveal anything either. You’d
> think this sort of thing was easy to figure out but here we are. I am not
> the release manager you deserve but the one you got. Sorry.
>
> Apparently the ._ files are an Mac thing for extended attributes:
>
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/282055/a-lot-of-files-inside-a-tar
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>
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