Re: [Monotone-devel] Future of monotone

[hendrik]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:32:33AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Markus" == Markus Schiltknecht <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>     Markus> ODF is an XML format, right?
> 
> No, it is a bit more complicated then that; it is zip file containing
> a number of XML files and other (possibly binary) files:
> 
> address@hidden:~$ unzip -t hardware\ survey\ draft.ods
> Archive:  hardware survey draft.ods
>     testing: mimetype                 OK
>     testing: Configurations2/statusbar/   OK
>     testing: Configurations2/accelerator/current.xml   OK
>     testing: Configurations2/floater/   OK
>     testing: Configurations2/popupmenu/   OK
>     testing: Configurations2/progressbar/   OK
>     testing: Configurations2/menubar/   OK
>     testing: Configurations2/toolbar/   OK
>     testing: Configurations2/images/Bitmaps/   OK
>     testing: content.xml              OK
>     testing: styles.xml               OK
>     testing: meta.xml                 OK
>     testing: Thumbnails/thumbnail.png   OK
>     testing: settings.xml             OK
>     testing: META-INF/manifest.xml    OK
> No errors detected in compressed data of hardware survey draft.ods.

So XML would have to treat this as another kind of directory, and 
process the files inside according to their types.  But if nothing 
inside the zip-directory has changed, it cah detect that easily withough 
looking at all its component files.

-- hendrik