| From: | David Trollope |
| Date: | 6 Sep 2000 at 01:59:29 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Compressed archive formats |
Hi,
I wrote this before the AmiPak announcement. It would be nice if these
features were built in to AmiPak. That would give it the significant
advantage over other platforms that it would need to justify a new format.
I would like to take this topic one step further, and suggest that an installer is
provided also. The installer can read the chosen archive format and install
the files in the right place on the system, checking version numbers etc. Of
course this would require a standard versioning technique also. These are
all things the classic had and should be carried over. (Except the
installer reading the archive itself...)
One should also be careful of compression copyright infringements.... It
gets ugly...
Dave
On 01-Sep-00, you wrote:
>
> I agree. The same goes for file formats. The Amiga OE is multiformat, so
> even "document.readme" will cause problems on other platforms.
>
> What we need are some standard formats for all systems and keep it the
> same.
>
> Asaf
>
> Matthew Kille wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is Amiga going to decide on a 'preferred' archive format?
>>
>> Looking through the contributions to ftp.amiga.com lists, there are so
>> many
>> different formats in use, zip, tgz, lha, bzip2, etc., that it can be a
>> bit
>> of a pain remembering which command/arguments need to be used to extract
>> the files you want.
>>
>> The Aminet, with its consistant use of lha, (my personal favourite), is
>> far
>> more helpful, whereas the ftp.amiga.com lists just look messy in
>> comparison.
>>
>> I'm not really saying that once Amiga makes a decision, that everyone is
>> forced to used that, but it would be helpful for those of us who wonder
>> which would be better, given such a wide choice. (Better in this case,
>> means better for maintenance, and user friendliness -- I don't think
>> compression is really much of an issue these days.)
>>
>> Secondly, on a similar theme, it would be good if a 'preferred' archive
>> organisation could be determined. By this I mean the layout of the
>> files/directories within the archive. Should all file/directories be
>> added
>> to the root of the archive, or contained within a suitably named
>> subdirectory? Where should the .readme be held? -- A second copy within
>> the archive, or just the one on the outside? etc...
>>
>> --
>> Matt. (Control freak.)
>>
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