On 8/15/07, Mitch Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Personally, I think that the zip archive format is quite well designed.
> Granted, it doesn't support all the detailed semantics of Unix
> filesystems, but it does a very good job of representing a
> tree-structured hierarchy of files.
Yes, bu
Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
> For linking
> within a bundle, the easy answer is to STOP USING ZIP. At least
> allow a standard Linux archiver (tar, cpio, or pax) as an alternative
> to that crufty old DOS archiver.
zip is younger than either tar or cpio, so "old" is an invalid
criticism. And I rejec
C. Scott Ananian writes:
> I have added a draft manifest specification to the wiki at:
>http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manifest_Specification
> There is not yet consensus on this specification; it shouldn't be
> viewed as final by any means.
First, regarding the document itself: It appears that yo
I have added a draft manifest specification to the wiki at:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Manifest_Specification
There is not yet consensus on this specification; it shouldn't be
viewed as final by any means.
You can look at the history of the specification on the wiki: in the
history I've added No
