upgrade to 1.4.0 stable
http://pear.php.net/package/Archive_Tar
1.4.0 stable
* Add support for PHP 7
* Drop support for PHP 4
* Add visibility declarations to methods and properties
Apart from the upgrades done to Tar.php at pear.net.net, there are known platform issues with the current versions for Drupal (system.tar.inc in Drupal 7 and ArchiveTar in Drupal 8):
- On Windows, path names are translated wrongly and the result is that e.g. the backup and migrate module can generate backup files with wrong paths.
- On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) 32 bit, gzopen() etc. are not defined. This results in White Screen Of Death (WSOD) for e.g. import/export configuration, install module and backup and migrate.