Re: [Arpix-devel] tgzlib - support for .tar.gz!

[Giovanni C. <val...@li...>]

On 06 Feb 2001 20:22:35 +0100, Hongli Lai wrote:
> > Van: Simo Sorce <sim...@ti...>
> > Aan: arp...@li...
> > Onderwerp: Re: [Arpix-devel] tgzlib - support for .tar.gz!
> > Datum: dinsdag 6 februari 2001 19:22
> >
> > I think n.1 is the good way.
> > While handling compression on the fly may be slowly it save us from the
> > hell of checking
> > for double free space to hold uncompressed tar file and it's content.
> 
> Free space really isn't an issiue any more these days.
> But do you have a point.
> Let's make it configureable :)

I think that whether use on-the-fly (or JIT ;-)) compression or
uncompress the file before opening it is more an issue of the frontend
than Libgarp's. I mean, there could be cases where the latter approach
is better (Gnomezip maybe?), but in some other cases it would be better
to use tgzlib (e.g. a future gnome-vfs module).
I think we can keep tgzlib in libgarp, while GnomeZip will use what
Hongli likes more (he is the only developer of it). There will be plenty
of time in the future for making changes.

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