On 9/14/07, Milan Jurik <Milan.Jurik at sun.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > is it ZIP patent free today?
I'm not competent to answer that question, but it's very widely available and I'm not aware of any problems in that area. > How quick is access to package metadata (which are needed more > frequently than data itself)? It should be quicker than ar of tar.gz or > bzip2 of cpio. That's one of the advantages - you don't have to unpack the whole archive to get all the metadata out, so it's very quick. (And it does allow extensions like the jar and war format which are readily understood mechanisms to add additional metadata.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
