PackageDescription: PORaBo Extensions TAR TGZ


PO Ra Bo Extensions TAR TGZ

Last published: February 1, 2005 by 'thomasb'

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This package extends the existing TAR/TGZ packages from the installer framework which only could read tar/tgz files. It adds the ability to create tar files or compressed tar files (tar.gz or .tgz).

Modifications to the TAR/TGZ packages are:
- added private namespace import 'OS.ZLib.*' because I prefer that over explicit namespaces in class references
- added a verifyHeaderCheckSum method in reading archives while testing the creation of checksums for writing
- Filename binaryReadStream is included because its origin VWInstallerFramework is a bit overhead for just this method.
It should probably be moved to a more suitable package.

The API is rather simple right now and could provide much more convenience methods. It has two methods, one to tar/tgz a directory recursively and one to tar/tgz a list of files relative to a given directory.

See also
'TARArchiver example' or
'TGZArchiver example'

Enjoy.

Any comments are welcome to: thomas.brodt@porabo.ch