On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Ned Konz wrote:

> > Unfortunately, the very first member of a .mcz file is the package
> > name, not the ancestry info.
>
> So why not store the version first?

Because there are already a bunch of .mcz files out there in the current
format.

> Enclosed is a CS that will add serial reading support (header by
> header) to the existing ZipArchive stuff.

Very cool, thanks.

> It hasn't been tested, and I couldn't find any support for the HTTP
> byte-ranges in the image.

No, I wouldn't have expected there to be.  HTTP client support is
currently minimal, to say the least.  That's something I've been meaning
to work on for a long time.

Avi