Re: [WWdevel] File Manager and archives

[Michael E. G. <ga...@ma...>]

On Jun 27, 2005, at 10:01 PM, Davide P.Cervone wrote:

> Folks:
>
> In response to the recent request to Mike to move large numbers of 
> files to a WW account, it would be possible to add some sort of "make 
> archive" and "unpack archive" button to the File Manager that would 
> allow a user to make a gzipped tar file from a directory, say, (or a 
> collection of sellected files) or unpack such a file.  Do you think 
> this is an important feature to add?  How often will this be 
> necessary?  I suppose that a professor might want to get a collection 
> of set.def files and their associated headers from a into a single 
> archive to be able to move them to a new course in a new term.  I 
> suggest gzipped tar format since that will certainly be available, 
> while the tools for making things like ZIP files might not.  Do you 
> think that would be sufficient?
>
I think this is just the right solution.  The desire to upload or 
download many set definition files or a whole directory of privately 
written problems is one that probably occurs at the beginning and end 
of each semester.  Since we have unix accounts we don't notice the need 
so acutely.

What you propose is just what I was thinking of and in fact it's 
similar to what is currently done in a slightly hacked fashion for 
Course Administration.  If you Export a course it creates a  gzipped 
file in the templates directory for download. When you import a course 
it has to be from a gzipped file.  (The Course Admin change is pretty 
recent and we can still modify that so that it is compatible with rules 
used by the file manager.)

So the idea would be: The user is responsible for gzip and tar before 
upload and after download.  The FileManager takes care of it 
automatically on the server?  Is there ever a case where you would want 
to upload a gzipped file and not have it processed? (aside from the 
CourseAdmin import/exports -- we can handle them as special cases.)

Take care,

Mike



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