[Pythonmac-SIG] PackMan engine version 0.4

[Kevin Ollivier]

Hi Jack,

Actually, just this week I had to implement some ZIP import/export 
capabilities into my EClass application, so I do now have some 
familiarity with the API.

As for the idiosyncrasies, I think the only reasonable option here is 
to just "officially" support distutils-created ZIPs. As long as the 
Windows version can deal with ZIPs created by distutils' bdist_dumb 
option, I'll be a happy camper. :-)

I'll see if I can spend some time on this over the next couple days and 
get something to you.

Thanks,

Kevin

On Mar 13, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On 29 Feb 2004, at 00:16, Kevin Ollivier wrote:
>> Since you're asking... <G> A version of the UnZip handler implemented 
>> in pure Python would be very nice - it's the only thing that keeps 
>> PackMan on Windows from being possible. (I know, I said I would do 
>> this eventually but haven't had time...) If you don't have time for 
>> this, I will get to it eventually, but probably not for a while 
>> unfortunately.
>
> Kevin,
> this isn't going to make it for this release, unless you (or someone 
> else) provides the code (and soon, please:-). It shouldn't be too 
> difficult, basically the code is just a copy of the PimpTarUnpacker, 
> but I've never used the zipfile module, and because of all those 
> idiosyncrasies with zip files not really understanding pathnames and 
> stuff I don't feel confident that I can implement something and test 
> it sufficiently.
> --
> Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
> If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma 
> Goldman
>
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