Re: [PATCH 2/2] archive: support gzipped tar files
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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
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- Jun 14, 2011, 23:40 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@github.com> writes:
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>> I didn't know it was that easy (primarily because I didn't know zlib had a >> ready-to-eat interface to do this). > > Yes, though I think it may be worth doing the more flexible, > external-filters approach. See elsewhere in the thread.
Given the relatively trivial code, isn't it worth doing both...?
One method for flexibility/multi-threaded-speed, the other for portability/robustness (doesn't depend on configuration / setup details)...
-Miles
-- "Though they may have different meanings, the cries of 'Yeeeee-haw!' and 'Allahu akbar!' are, in spirit, not actually all that different."