[openbeos] Re: Understanding PKG
- From: Mat Hounsell <mat_geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 17:12:41 -0800 (PST)
PKG uses gzip? Let me head of a reinvention.
The Translator Kit supports all sorts of data. It would be nice and hopefully
non breaking to add another type: octet-stream, i.e. binary.
This would allow translation to gzip, bzip2, deflate, compress, mime64, hex
etc. It would also allow their chaining so you could gzip then mime encode; for
mail.
Great for PKG, BeMail, HTTP/1.1 clients etc.
I was looking at implementing it. But since that will take forever. I am
happier for someone with speed to beat me to it.
Bernd, I also think it would be great on Zeta.
Also if some one wants to tackle the trickier archive translator for tar, zip,
7z, rar, multi-part-mime etc ...
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