Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2003 15:30:35 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [kernel.org mirrors] RE: Deprecating .gz format on kernel.org |
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[Removing the mirrors list from this since I have to manually approve everything...]+
LA Walsh wrote: > > I asked WinZip for plugin support so users could add > arbitrary compressions formats (I specifically mentioned 'bz2'). > I even offered to do it myself if they wanted to give me NDA access > to the code.... and was told that they have thought about > extensibility but had no plans to support it in the forseeable > future. Consider it a benefit of a closed source product. > They control your file format, they control your business and personal decisions...nice. > > Anyone up for writing a Free version of Winzip to replace > the "cooperative" Winzip authors' version (was was up for making > minor mod's, but not starting from scratch). >
WinME and WinXP has something called compressed folder support... they treat .zip files as containers right in the desktop UI.
Perhaps *that* has some kind of plugin architecture?
-hpa
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