Re: New filesystem/directory API proposal

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Arve Bersvendsen <arveb@opera.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:49:36 +0100, Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com> wrote:
>
>> OK, so what you'd want would be to have an Entry that was a zip file
>> [or other archive type], but you could look inside it as if it were a
>> directory?
>
> Yes. Opera's implementation supports treating zip files as (read-only)
> directories.

OK, that shouldn't be hard.

>>  You're not asking for the ability to zip or unzip an
>> archive using a built-in command?  Let me think about how to do this
>> cleanly.
>
> I would expect zipping and unzipping to be a different spec, as to not bloat
> this spec needlessly.

Good plan.

Received on Tuesday, 2 February 2010 04:03:11 UTC