Hello all,

I am developing a few custom providers for some features that I need into 
my system (such as dealing with different zipped files or generating some 
JSON data based on OS files) and I have hit into a question about "how to 
do this for multiple OS?"

Lets focus into the zipped file provider that should provide a common 
method to pack or unpack zipped files (tar, tar.gz, rar, zip or any) backed 
on OS tools or native ruby methods. Maybe the ruby approach would be the 
most portable one but I will keep that approach aside right now. We end up 
with 3 providers for the custom type 'zipfile': zip, rar and tar.

Those providers may share code but they differ on how to delegate its 
functionality to third-party apps (7zip on windows and zip/unzip on linux 
as an example). How can I deal with that? Can I clone the provider into 
different files such as zip-windows.rb and zip-linux.rb, keep the same 
header and use the confine method? Is there any filename -> provider 
restriction? Is that the correct approach?

I have been searching through other core providers like file but I can not 
find my answer...

Thanks

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