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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:44:22 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>
Cc:        tnaggs@cddotdot.mikom.csir.co.za (Anthony Naggs), Hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FBSD 2.1 
Message-ID:  <7647.821781862@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jan 1996 22:46:05 MST." <199601160546.WAA03311@rocky.sri.MT.net> 

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> Do you want a library instead of just calling the zip/unzip utils and
> parsing the output?  Although I think the latter would be much slower,
> it would avoid you having to GPL your package tools, and avoid
> 'Yet-Another' GPL utility in the tree.

That wouldn't save us anyway since we'd still need at least unzip in
the tree.  I figure if we're going to bring something like zip/unzip
in, we might as well try to add some value to it.  A library API to
zip would be useful for a lot of things, I think.

> Also, what kind of API would you like to see?  You are the most familiar
> with the package tools, so if you write up a quick 'this is what I'd
> like to see API' then it would be easier for someone to know what is
> expected.

OK.  I will do precisely that!

					Jordan



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