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Rincewind:

--- Quote from: linuxstb link=topic=9237.msg71259#msg71259 ---
I also think it could  be quite useful - the unzip functionality could be added to the plugin library (thereby making it usable by all plugins, such as the various emulators, enabling them to read data directly from zip files without uncompressing them first), as well as a general-purpose unzip plugin.

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A Rockbox zip library could also be useful to make a one-file wps format. But a simple .tar would be enough for this, though. Compression is not really needed in that case.

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: Rincewind on March 11, 2007, 11:53:15 AM ---A Rockbox zip library could also be useful to make a one-file wps format. But a simple .tar would be enough for this, though. Compression is not really needed in that case.

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I even consider using zip the inferior solution -- it needs much more work as compression needs to get handled and hasn't real benefits. Themes aren't that big size-wise and loading from a tar file is much easier. (I posted a theme file installer plugin on FS, it simply uses tar files, and zip also suffers from no file index issue like tar does which made the integration of tarred theme files I worked on some while ago quite slow.)

nls:

--- Quote from: linuxstb on March 11, 2007, 05:40:18 AM ---
I'm not sure what you mean by "real time" when dealing with zip files...

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Sorry I wasn't expressing myself very clearly, I just meant the no need for realtime as a comparison for what is feasible to do regarding audio codecs and video as zip extraction can take forever and still work nicely :-)

psycho_maniac:

--- Quote from: bluebrother on March 11, 2007, 11:59:08 AM ---I even consider using zip the inferior solution -- it needs much more work as compression needs to get handled and hasn't real benefits. Themes aren't that big size-wise and loading from a tar file is much easier.

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This is true. Another  thing when using one tar or zip file for wps's is that you wont have to go through and delete the folder and .cfg and .wps files for these theme. just one or 2 things to delete.

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