From kde-core-devel  Fri Jul 02 10:15:46 2004
From: Torsten Rahn <torsten.rahn () credativ ! de>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:15:46 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Chaining of io-slaves (Was: plans for KDE4)
Message-Id: <200407021215.46510.torsten.rahn () credativ ! de>
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Am Freitag, 2. Juli 2004 11:56 schrieb Waldo Bastian:
> On Thu July 1 2004 22:35, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > "chaining" or "nesting" of ioslaves would be cool (zip files inside of
> > zip files inside of zip files inside of ....) as it happens often e.g.
> > with .jar archives.
> > (or gzipped text or html or...)
>
> We have that for quite some time already (KDE 2.x?) and nobody uses it and
> it is broken half of the time because it doesn't get tested.

Do you mean "nobody is using it" in terms of technology?
To me nesting of ioslaves seems to be rather essential ...

Greetings,
Torsten

> E.g. if you have a gzip file you can use URLs like
> 	file:/home/bastian/desktop_shadow.png.gz#gunzip:
>
> If anything, I would like to remove it for KDE 4.
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo