From: Massimiliano Mirra <list@...>
Date: 2002-03-21T03:09:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Archives

On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 01:32:50AM +0900, Thomas Hurst wrote:
> The Ar reader is simply an example implimentation using the
> Archive::Entry class (and is used in rpkg).

Actually rpkg still uses another implementation (shamelessly copied
from your tar.rb, by the way), as this one is so much subject to
recoding earthquakes that rpkg would soon explode.

> We're also looking into an IO proxy that will allow each entry and/or
> part of an entry act as an IO stream acting only on part of a file,
> which introduces other intresting possibilities like reading other
> archives in the archive directly.

You forgot to mention the tuplized archives over TCP/IP and the soon
to come Archive-Coffee-HOWTO.  <g>

Massimiliano