[ENH] Zip Serial Reading (was Re: [NIT] Managing repositories in
MC)
Avi Bryant
avi at beta4.com
Mon Sep 22 00:06:07 UTC 2003
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
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