Compressing modules

Paolo Bonzini wrote

Lethalman aka Luca Bruno wrote:
> Hello,
> what about creating modules for tar/zlib/bzip2 with a abstraction layer for
> all kind of compressions?
It's already there -- it's called VFS and it uses shell scripts or
external programs as the "abstraction layer".  I don't know if it has
bitrotten, and for sure having instead a module that wraps zlib or bzip2
would be a good idea.

Paolo


_______________________________________________
help-smalltalk mailing list
help-smalltalk@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk

Paolo Bonzini wrote

>> It's already there -- it's called VFS and it uses shell scripts or
>> external programs as the "abstraction layer".  I don't know if it has
>> bitrotten, and for sure having instead a module that wraps zlib or bzip2
>> would be a good idea.
> Yes, i've seen VFS (a superficial view of it), but maybe it'is better to
> have a module instead of dealing with console.
>  
You can extend VFS with new classes that don't use the shell -- the
structure is there, what is needed is the modules, which as I said is a
good idea.  In fact, the Midnight Commander for example does not use
shell scripts for "tar" files.

Paolo


_______________________________________________
help-smalltalk mailing list
help-smalltalk@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk