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

[Hongli L. <ho...@te...>]

On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 22:22:51 Giovanni Corriga wrote:
> 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.

Agreed.