No no, if anything "poorly" is giving it too much credit! It's probably more accurate to say it's "not documented at all, and what little documentation you'll find is probably misleading, so you'll end up RTFSing anyway" :)
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:51, Adam Crabtree <[email protected]> wrote: > Ha, sorry if "poorly" sounded harsh, =) It works great once you get the API > down. I'll try and whip up some updated examples when I get a chance later > today and submit a pull request. I'm using tar in my browser package > manager, tiki, so thanks for all the hard work. > > Cheers, > Adam Crabtree > > > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Isaac Schlueter <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Documentation patches welcome!! >> >> node-tar is useful. I'm using it in npm now. But it's not really >> considered "finished" until the API is more fleshed out for more use >> cases, and documented thoroughly. It's on the todo list :) >> >> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:30, Adam Crabtree <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Interesting. I really appreciate the background. Zipstream seems to work >> > great, though I was going to see if I could hack in support for >> > streaming >> > into, maybe along the lines of some of the other "entry" event streams. >> > >> > I'd also recommend to anyone interested in zipstream to checkout Issac's >> > streaming tar module >> > >> > https://github.com/isaacs/node-tar >> > npm install tar >> > >> > It's pretty poorly documented, but if you search for "zlib." or "tar." >> > in >> > npm's source, you'll see how to stream into and out of it. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Adam Crabtree >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Antoine van Wel >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> Basically zlib implements the "deflate" compression algorithm which is >> >> used by the zip format. Then zip compresses each file individually and >> >> adds >> >> some extra data with info like filenames and checksums. gzip just >> >> compresses >> >> a single file, it's not an archiving format so you got to combine it >> >> with >> >> somethling like tar. It's a different simpler format but it uses the >> >> same >> >> deflate algorithm underneath. >> >> >> >> Antoine >> >> >> >> On Jan 31, 2012 4:46 PM, "Adam Crabtree" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >> >>> Awesome work! I actually started using zipstream about 2 weeks ago. I >> >>> see >> >>> you added .pipe support, I shoehorned it into my local version since >> >>> it >> >>> wasn't there yet. =) >> >>> >> >>> Out of curiosity, I'm not familiar with zipping algorithms >> >>> (packaging?), >> >>> but is there any particular reason why you couldn't create or open a >> >>> zip >> >>> file using node's built in zlib module? (e.g., zlib.Gzip()) >> >>> >> >>> I'm assuming there's some type of packaging going on since in order to >> >>> open a tar file I seem to have to use Isaac's "tar" module. >> >>> >> >>> This is how npm does it: >> >>> var stream = >> >>> >> >>> fs.createReadStream('in.tgz').pipe(zlib.Gunzip()).pipe(tar.Parse({type: >> >>> "Directory"})) >> >>> >> >>> Cheers, >> >>> Adam Crabtree >> >>> >> >>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Antoine van Wel >> >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> I guess anything 0.6.X should be fine. Earlier versions won't work >> >>>> since it depends on the zlib module. >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> Antoine >> >>>> >> >>>> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 5:39 AM, Anand George >> >>>> <[email protected]> >> >>>> wrote: >> >>>> > Any specific reason for node >= 0.6.3 >> >>>> > >> >>>> > Anand >> >>>> > >> >>>> > >> >>>> > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:54 AM, fent <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> >> >> >>>> >> Very nice. You took an interesting approach to streaming files >> >>>> >> into >> >>>> >> it. I like. >> >>>> >> >> >>>> >> On Jan 26, 1:56 pm, Antoine van Wel <[email protected]> >> >>>> >> wrote: >> >>>> >> > To install: npm install zipstream >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > On github:https://github.com/wellawaretech/node-zipstream >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Antoine van Wel >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>>> >> > > Hi everybody, >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > > I've put together a small module to create ZIP streams using >> >>>> >> > > Node's >> >>>> >> > > internal Zlib library. It's accepting input streams as >> >>>> >> > > arguments >> >>>> >> > > and >> >>>> >> > > produces an output stream, so it's easy to generate files on >> >>>> >> > > the >> >>>> >> > > fly. >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > > var out = fs.createWriteStream('out.zip'); >> >>>> >> > > var zip = zipstream.createZip({ level: 1 }); >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > > zip.addFile(fs.createReadStream('README.md'), { name: >> >>>> >> > > 'README.md' >> >>>> >> > > }, >> >>>> >> > > function() { >> >>>> >> > > zip.addFile(fs.createReadStream('example.js'), { name: >> >>>> >> > > 'example.js' >> >>>> >> > > }, function() { >> >>>> >> > > zip.finalize(); >> >>>> >> > > }); >> >>>> >> > > }); >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > > zip.pipe(out); >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > > enjoy, >> >>>> >> > >> >>>> >> > > Antoine. >> >>>> >> >> >>>> >> -- >> >>>> >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> >>>> >> Posting guidelines: >> >>>> >> >> >>>> >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> >>>> >> You 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