On Tuesday 21 March 2006 15:36, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote: > Am 21.03.06, 08:57 -0500 schrieb Leonard Rosenthol: > > > A zip file is seekable on a too low programming level. Without a > > > general purpose library, which handles this low level stuff, there will > > > remain many applications without proper support for the new format or > > > perhaps slow down the desktop.
Leonard, didn't you send you mail to the create list, or did it just not arrive here? > > This would fall on my second item, when compression inside the > > archive is implemented - and I would agree. BUT if the archive is JUST a > > wrapper/container and does NOT provide additional compression (that's > > left to JPEG, PNG, TIFF, etc.) - then I don't see any problem with > > acceptable. > > We here understand this issue, but due to the bare possibility I expect > many applications to break this understanding. Why not simply put all this > stuff into a tar file? It has no compression. No one can go wrong about > double compression, thus creating slow to seek image files. Tar files were tried for KOffice 1.0 and discarded in favour of zipfiles. Likewise, Java puts all its resources in zip files (calling them jarfiles is just a trick), and that works fine, too. The standard will lay out the way pixel data should be saved. If an application doesn't do that, it doesn't implement the standard. It's that simple. -- Boudewijn Rempt http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
pgpnQELstuGDC.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
