[Netjuke-devel] 1.0-rc2 and batch file downloading

[CJ K. <ne...@ap...>]

Hello, list.

I recently upgraded netjuke from 1.0b17 to 1.0-rc2 and I noticed that
you've moved to using a PHP zip library instead of using the external
programs like I was used to in 1.0b7.  While that's a pretty cool
feature, I'd personally like to be able to specify using the external
programs if I want (especially since my preferred format is tar), so
it would be great if the PHP Zip library was simply another option
on the download.  In addition, there's a couple of related things
I'd like to see:

  1) Previously all of the directory information was put into the
     batched files; this was very useful to me, especially when
     grabbing a bunch of albums at a time.  I noticed that the PHP
     Zip library has an add_dir function, so that should be possible
     still.

  2) I've actually modified batch.php so that it creates a temporary
     file for actual download (I believe the Mac .sit format did this
     previously on 1.0b17), and I do so because otherwise my
     mod_bandwidth on Apache doesn't actually do anything.  It can't
     seem to deal with output that's coming directly from an external
     program.  So what I've done is set up the code to create the
     temp file and then just use a Location: redirect to point the
     browser to the file.  This lets mod_bandwidth do its thing
     properly.  So, another option would be nice to enable this
     behavior.

Thanks!

-CJ

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