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Postings from February 2001
Bryan C. Warnock wrote: > Is that '.tar and .zip' as in '.tar and .zip' or '.tar or .zip'? .tar or .zip > Aren't most tars still unindexed, requiring a full file scan anyway? That was one I was not aware of... One more reason to use .zip! Hey, .tgz people... Java's jar has used .zip as its format very successfully until now. I really don't see a reason why we shouldn't do that. I agree flexible is good, and I think that flexible would be easy if Archive::Tar, Archive::Zip, Archive::* share the same interface. I actually can't say that it's possible, because as this message is pointing, there are many differences between the features that different archive formats offer, and I can't see how they would offer the same functions... So I think we can start with zip, and postpone the flexibility problem for when we define the Archive::* implementations for Perl6, possibly stating that we'd like them to have the same interface, so that we can use one or another with the same code. - BrandenThread Previous | Thread Next