Re: XARCHON Data files

[Ronen Tzur <rtzur@shani.net>]

Hi

On Tuesday 26 March 2002 14:47, hursh wrote:
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Ronen Tzur <rtzur@shani.net>
> Reply-To: xarchon-l@seul.org
> Date:  Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:29:05 -0500
>
> >Hello!
> >
> >
> >On the matter of symlinks and friends.   It seems nobody likes symlinks
> > but me.   :-)   I do agree they might be more problematic in some
> > situation.   Oh well, we'll go for a sprite configuration file.
> >
> >On Monday 25 March 2002 13:10, capmikee@home.martnet.com wrote:
> >> I think we've got a good plan here: keep icons in xpm format, and zip
> >> them up to make a single theme file. Both xpm and zip (or tgz, etc)
> >> are easily accessible standards.
> >
> >Personally I prefer uncompressed tars, as they would be easiest to handle.
> >And in a UNIX environment, they seem, at least to me, more popular than
> > zip.
>
> I spat out zip just because I know of libraries that handle it fairly
> transparently.  Are the any good libs for reading a tar file?

The zlib package has a small example of processing a (gzipped) tar file, and 
it is small and extremely simple.   I don't know of anything really 
"mainstream" except maybe gnome-vfs, but I wouldn't want to require GNOME 
libraries (or any other library) just for this.