[haiku-development] Re: Package manager

On 2009-08-05 at 14:25:28 [+0200], Niklas Niklas <noisetonepause@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> 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.

tar is not compressed though. It also doesn't have BeOS attribute support.

CU, Ingo

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