Re: Standard OS X Compression format
Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- Subject: Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- From: "Andrew J. Hobbs" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:05:25 -0500
<asbestos_underwear>
Rather than a new "standard", going with something like tar.gz would be
much preferable. True, it doesn't understand resource forks, but
preferred mode for OS X is resource in data fork of a seperate file.
Perhaps modifying (and providing patches back) to the existing utilities
to gracefully handle forks.
Something like this:
Bundle files into the tar the same as if OS X was sticking files onto a
UFS or foreign NFS drive, by putting resources in an external file.
When decoding, automatically reassemble if the filesystem supports
forks, or leave in the accepted format on others.
Standards are a good thing taken in moderation. I'd rather see an
existing, living standard extended (with feeds back to the standard),
than YACS (Yet Another Custom Standard).
</asbestos_underwear>
Andrew
On Thursday, November 15, 2001, at 05:51 PM, Steve Gehrman wrote:
Cocoa Developers,
I think the Macintosh community would be better off if we could phase
out the .sit format and standardize on something that's open for Mac OS
X.
What should the new format be? .gz and .tar.gz don't include resource
forks.
Should we create a new format?
I think this is an important topic to finalize while OS X is still
relatively new. Something as basic as file compression/decompression
should not be in controlled by a single third party developer.
I can provide the open source application for compress and decompress
once we decide.
--
Steve Gehrman
CocoaTech, Inc.
email@hidden
http://www.cocoatech.com
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