Re: Package Proposal : Archive_Zip

Zitat von Stefan Neufeind <stefan@neufeind.net>: > On 4 Sep 2003 at 9:32, Alexander Merz wrote: > > > Vincent Blavet wrote: > > > > > Any feedback is still welcome, > > What about an unified Archive-API? > > > > Archive::create() > > Archive::read() > > Archive::addFile() > > Archive::listFiles() > > ... > > > > The type of archive could be detected by file ending. > > Or by a factory-method? I wouldn't use the file-ending as the only > step to determine the archive-type. We should also provide a "manual" > way of selecting the compression. > > But yes, I like the idea. Maybe we could demand that every archive- > package provides certain functions (like Java's "implements"- > directive)? Don't know if this is possible for all archives - maybe > Vincent or somebody can judge better. But it would be interesting to > be that flexible, in my eyes. No, I don't propose a Horde library this time. ;-) Our "archive" libs are not that complete because only the ZIP driver allows compressing, but you might get some inspiration from them: http://cvs.horde.org/co.php/horde/lib/Compress.php http://cvs.horde.org/cvs.php/horde/lib/Compress Jan. -- http://www.horde.org - The Horde Project http://www.ammma.de - discover your knowledge http://www.tip4all.de - Deine private Tippgemeinschaft