Feature Request: Nested SARs

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Thu Dec 5 05:03:37 UTC 2002


On Wednesday 04 December 2002 08:26 pm, Stephen Pair wrote:
> One thing that I'm finding that I'd like to have is nested
> SARs...basically, that means to have a SAR file within another SAR
> file and be able to easily install the nested SAR using
> #fileInMemberNamed:. Also, it might be good to allow the members of
> a SAR to be embedded in another SAR within some containing
> directory and then allow that to be easily loaded as if it were a
> SAR (something like
> #installSARDirectory:).
>
> I realize that you could do this manually in the preamble, but it'd
> be nice to have a simple interface for doing it (rather than having
> to extract the sar member, then use the SARInstaller to install
> it).


Doesn't this work in the preamble (haven't tried it, but it seems like 
it'd work)? Seems pretty simple to me:

SARInstaller new fileInFrom: (self zip memberNamed: 'whatever.zip') 
contentStream.

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