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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 102265] nested kioslaves for archives
From:       Jos van den Oever <jos () vandenoever ! info>
Date:       2005-03-31 12:53:57
Message-ID: 20050331125357.29073.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From jos vandenoever info  2005-03-31 14:53 -------
Adding nestability to kioslaves is a wonderful idea. When extending the kioslave \
implementation like this, please consider arbitrary nesting depth. A common example \
where this is highly useful is nested archives, e.g. a text file in a tar.bz2 in a \
tar.gz in a zip file.

Catting such a file is relatively easy (unzip -p file.zip file.tar.gz | tar xzO \
file.tar.bz2 | tar xjO file.txt). Trying to fit access to such a file in a URI is, as \
the above discussion illustrates, difficult, especially if it is to be done in a \
user-friendly manner.

The advantages of nested kioslaves are, however, huge. A good example would be a file \
indexer that would automatically be able to read all files on disc, regardless of \
whether they are in some sort of archive. A program that would greatly benefit from \
this is Kat (http://kat.sourceforge.net/).


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