FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Opentracker suggestions

["Nathan Whitehorn" <nathan.whitehorn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> 
> 
> > > > discussion, I dropped it: you can't do it transparent for other
> > > > applications as well, at least not in a nice way.
> > > > What we will do though, is a ZIP file system - this brings full
> > > > transparency even for other applications.
> 
> > If you mean adding transpoarent zip file support inside BFS, it 
> > won't 
> > happen.
> 
> Yes, but why not a zip filesystem addon, and maybe an OpenTracker 
> addon
> which automounts zip "drives" and is able to to browse them, modify 
> them,
> et cetera, using Tracker.  The only problem I see is monitoring when 
> to
> unmount such drives (would this be automatic).

All of this has been possible for years, if someone would bother 
writing a zip file system. For most people, however, such a program was 
of limited utility, and so no one ever got around to writing it.
-Nathan

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