[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev den 17-05-2007 00:20:
A brief look at the package shows that it would contain API's for tar and bzip2. The first is an archiving format like zip, and the second a compression method on a stream.You can't do that if you only see archives as boring things used in backups. Backups that are either windows (zip) or unix (tar), yawn. If you go hardcore, you'll notice that a lot of common file formats provide support for arbitrary data to be buried within the files. JPEG and PNG image formats, ELF executable files and shared libraries.... This definitely isn't 1.0 stuff, but it's something to keep in mind.
I therefore suggest that the tar methods should be migrated to the vfs module (if suitable) and that the compress module should contain methods that can compress/uncompress streams (which is easily extendable to files, http connections etc).
By doing so there will be a clear goal of this project. -- Thorbjørn
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