[I7] I7 projects and bundle files

[R. Mark Adams, Ph.D.]

That is a great idea!  I would suggest that we use the python functions
for reading I7 tar/zip archives, but go ahead and expand the files into a
temporary directory for writing.  I have had mixed success writing to
tarfiles using the libraries, and retaining their usability, particularly
across platforms.

How has your luck been writing Sugar apps?  I am still hacking around with
QEMU on my MacBook.

-Mark

Adam Thornton wrote:
> I have a proposal, but I don't know how difficult-to-implement it
> would be.
>
> Python appears to support, in its core libraries, tar and zipfile
> archives.  Pretty much, you open these as objects, and then you can
> address the files inside; I presume it's all done with clever use of
> temporary space and I don't yet know how good the write support is.
>
> However, how tough would it be, to, in addition to letting
> project.inform be a directory, containing Source, Build, and Index
> (and their contents), to also allow it to be any of: a zipfile, a
> tarball, a tarball compressed with bzip2, and a tarball compressed
> with gzip ?  Or, perhaps, *one* of these, chosen for ease of
> manipulation across platforms (probably zip) ?
>
> The file name and extension would still be .inform.  The contents
> would just be whatever is normally in the proj.inform directory.
>
> I don't yet know how aggressively you'd want to rebuild the archive
> file during normal operation.
>
> Adam
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