[Python-ideas] Adding ziplib

[Ryan Gonzalez]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Florian Bruhin <me at the-compiler.org>
wrote:

> * Ryan Gonzalez <rymg19 at gmail.com> [2015-02-16 19:00:33 -0600]:
> > On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I love the idea (I've had to write my own custom wrapper around a
> subset
> > > of functionality for zip and tgz a few times, and I don't remember
> enjoying
> > > it...), and I especially like the idea of starting with the ABCs (which
> > > would hopefully encourage all those people writing cpio and 7z and
> whatever
> > > parsers to conform to the same API, even if they do so by wrapping LGPL
> > > libs like libarchive or even subprocessing out to command-line tools).
> > >
> > > But why "ziplib"? Why not something generic like "archive" that doesn't
> > > sound like it's specific to ZIP files?
> > >
> > >
> > This occurred to me a few moments ago. How about arclib?
>
> To me, that sounds like a library to handle ARC files:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_(file_format)
>
>
Darn...

Does anybody even use that format anymore?


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