-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sverre Rabbelier wrote: > 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. > I thought about this, as well as the .zip format. The problem is in multiple files and how to handle them. Do you look for a series and automagically add '--series' semantics? What about ignore/replace? If no series file, do you just try to apply all of them? In what order? Look for '.patch' suffix and only use those? And what about the old '.tgz' suffix? Lots of different ways to go here. I don't think it would be a bad thing to add .tar and .zip handling, but I'd rather bat it around a little on this list before doing it. That way we can find out how people would like to use it. Clark -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhOiUcACgkQqA4JVb61b9cWawCeK+n8uo8XGGlURYG2ImuhUUNY eZEAn31ZfjC7MgiP1VZ02uksrRJQiQVe =Tu6s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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
