Re: GZip{In,Out}putStream in GIO?

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

2009/8/3 Freddie Unpenstein <fredderic excite com>:
> From: Steve Fr-23;cinaux, Date: 03/08/2009 19:38, Wrote:
>
>> Bastien Nocera wrote:
>> > I could think of at least 5 types of compressions that would be useful
>> > to have without having to use a command-line tool to decompress:
>> > - gzip for anything and everything that can come from a web server (in
>> > my case, iTunes Music Store playlist parsing, or more widely, GOffice
>> > file formats)
>> > - zip for OpenOffice.org documents and Comic Books (evince)
>> > - 7zip/LZMA/Xz formats for Comic Books
>> > - Rar for the same as above
>> Aren't there two classes of file types there ? Compression vs Archiving
>
> Archiving formats would be better supported by GVFS, wouldn't they...?
> Treating an archive as a virtual directory.