Re: [Gnu-arch-users] (my) tla on windows roadmap

[Johannes Berg]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 23:40, Milan Cvetkovic wrote:
> there is a simple "compression" that can work here:
> root/c/c--b/c--b--v/patch-nn/c--b--v--patch-nn.patches.tar.gz
> compressed to:
> root/c/b/v/nn.tar.gz
> just by removing redundant info

Thats part of the "archive format 3 proposal".

> The similar compression as above could be implemented for prisitines and 
> revision libraries, I guess. For windows users having archives on a 
> remote unix box, this is actually al they need, so they actually don't 
> even require the archive-format to change.
> 
> 
> I am not sure how difficult this would be to put in tla, though.

I think instead of the ",,get...." junk tla should use a temporary
filename that is created via some internal hackerlab functions, maybe
providing a short description string. Then win32 hackerlab would use
something shorter. Thats not extraordinarily hard, but someone needs to
implement the necessary hackerlab logic (see win32 todo on the wiki)

johannes

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