Hi,

our current Compression package does not support Zip64 which is limiting us
in usage of Metacello together with Git. When we use the Metacello for
installing of a baseline like:

Metacello new
  baseline: 'IDE';
  repository: 'github://guillep/pharo-core';
  load.

then the Metacello downloads the corresponding archive from Github. However
the standard Zip archives have count limit of 65535 members but the
pharo-core repository and some others contain much more than this
(pharo-core has 125021 files). The Zip64 extension is used for them during
compression which we cannot read now.

So if you will see Error: bad signature 16r... at position ..., then it has
this reason. The workaround for now is to load projects from a local clone
of such big repositories.

Cheers,
-- Pavel

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