Re: Archive_Tar class anyone?

[Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@alltheweb.com>] > > Hi Vincent, > > Zip has really bad compression compared to gzip, which PHP already > supports. That's why I suggested a tar class: to have a format that > only archives and put the existing compression on top. > ["Chris Lambert" <chris@php.net>] > > Doesn't PHP's gzip compression require the zlib library? My experience is > that only about 10% of servers have this module installed... It does, but at least you're more likely to find the zlib library installed than any other compression library. But anyway, with gzip we have a way of "graceful degradation" if something is missing: If PHP's built-in gzip support is not available, we try using an external "gzip" program. If that doesn't work, we either offer .tar.Z (should work on all unix-like boxes) or just .tar as alternatives. Windows is not such a big problem, since most people install the binaries and we can include gzip support (if it's not already). - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken <ssb@alltheweb.com> Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway