[Starkit] Improving Tcl compression and performance

[Will Duquette]

So put the tar.gz file into the starkit as a normal file,
don't worry about compression, and have the starkit
expand the tar.gz file onto the host filesystem.

Will

On Jan 11, 2004, at 11:21 AM, Guaca Mole wrote:

>>> Yes, but not enough for my needs. I want tclkit to
>>> replace distribution of potentially .tar.gz files,
>>> cant do that if resulting archives is double size
>>
>> But you're comparing apples with oranges ...
>>
>> At some point the tarball will need to be
>> uncompressed otherwise you
>> can't use it - correct?
>
> Yes, actually the point is to get rid of the tarball,
> so the user only has to download the tclkit and
> double-click it. The tclkit copies the files some
> place in the system and runs a series of actions.
> This replaces the typical
>
> tar xvfz program.tar.gz
> cd program
> more README
> [run a number of scripts]
>
>> This implies that space is only critical during the
>> download/distributes
>
> Correct, specially with files potentially several
> hundred megabytes big
>
>> - so why not just create the
>> Starkit with
>> compression turned off, and put it into a tarball or
>> zip?
>
> The tclkit performs other actions apart from being a
> transport. I can tell the users to run those scripts
> and perform a few substitutions in configuration
> files, but you will be surprised to learn how many
> different ways users can find to shoot their own feet
> :) so this would be a way of automating the process. I
> can do the opposite : store a tar.gz in the tclkit and
> then copy out and extract it. But this does not work
> that well if the tar.gz several hundred megabytes
> (because you need double the space)
>
>
>
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