On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Peanut gallery question: Why not just always try these methods and catch > some format exception if they fail, proceeding to the next possible > decompressor (proceeding on to no decompressor)? > > That way if a file is called .GZ, it will still be handled properly; in > fact, all files would still be handled properly. And these formats leave > notes in the first few bytes of the file as to if they should be tried, so > it's not as if it would come at some performance cost. How about adding in '.tar' decompression as well, -after- the '.gz' decompression? That way you can have .tar.gz's and still be fine. -- Cheers, Sverre Rabbelier -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
