[Dextrose] Bundle format

Bernie Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Mon Nov 22 23:07:58 EST 2010


On Mon, 2010-11-22 at 10:53 -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> (oh, and the .zip file already has a checksum, it's not clear why
> you'd need another one.)

Ah, cool... but I guess it's not a cryptographically secure one, right?

Plus, I was thinking... shouldn't we support a bundle format with better
compression than zip? My favorite pick would be tar + xz, but if we want
to retain the file-by-file accessibility of zip, 7z would also work
well.

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