From: Miles Bader Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:40:22 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] archive: support gzipped tar files Message-ID: <87vcw8f0d5.fsf@catnip.gol.com> In-Reply-To: <20110614204950.GB12776@sigill.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: >> 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."