[haiku-development] Re: Package manager
- From: Niklas Niklas <noisetonepause@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 14:25:28 +0200
On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:27:45 +0200
Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Another option is to develop a custom bundle format that includes
> some sort of disk image of the application that can be randomly
> accessed (I is not true for zip archives, I think?). In order to
> ensure good performance, this disk image cannot be compressed (or at
> least not much). That means it will have to be compressed for
> distribution.
What about tar? Reading from tars isn't difficult AFAIK.
One of the BSDs has a tarfs in userspace. Haiku could too, for looking
inside bundles.
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